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Class Overview
Practice American Sign Language (ASL) and continue to improve your skills in this engaging intermediate class. Expand your sign language vocabulary and cultural understanding in order to communicate more effectively.
Continue building your ASL skills learned in our Level 3 class, or comparable experience. Improve your understanding of narrative structure in ASL, and movement agreement. Explore and implement more classifiers in themes of action and incidents. Take a deep dive into a few grammar structures such as rhetorical questions and conjunctions.
Enjoy being part of a community of learners while improving your ASL communications skills!
Learning Objectives
- Implementing classifiers into storytelling, including accidents or mishaps
- Increase your ASL vocabulary including direction based words and expressions, clothing descriptions, making requests, and more.
- Gain understanding of cultural and historical aspects of ASL and the American Deaf community.
Recommended Textbook
Signing Naturally, Units 7-12; by Cheri Smith; ISBN# 1581212216
Who Might Enjoy This Class?
- Students who have previously completed our Level 3 class class or comparable skills and experience
- Anyone with intermediate American Sign Language skills, including comfort with fingerspelling and basic signs.