E-Z American Sign Language
Overview: This heavily illustrated, self-teaching guide to ASL-American Sign Language-is useful both for the deaf and for those men and women who teach or work among deaf people. E-Z American Sign Language presents ASL's 10 key grammatical rules and emphasizes the use of "facial grammar" as an impor...
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| Language: | English |
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Hauppauge, NY :
Barron's Educational Series,
Ã2011.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
| Series: | E-Z series.
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Table of Contents:
- Note to the student
- Introduction: American Sign Language
- Basics:
- Facial grammar
- First ten rules of ASL grammar
- Introduction to the dialogues
- Getting Started:
- Getting started
- Learning ASL
- Courtesy phrases
- Vocabulary building: descriptive signs
- Taking up classes
- Inquiring about class time
- Signs for courses
- Review of lessons 1-7
- Deaf Community:
- One Million New Signs:
- Everyday ASL:
- Common conversational signs
- Practice signing
- Discussing time
- Leisure activity
- Directional Verbs And Communicating:
- Directional verbs that change the meanings of sentences in space
- Deaf teacher
- Interpreter
- Understanding communication
- Review of lessons 8-14
- Deaf Way:
- Technology and other adaptations: the deaf way
- Deaf Way:
- Technology and other adaptations: the deaf way
- It's All Relative:
- Opposites
- Relations and places
- Relations, cities and occupations
- Body- And Gaze-Shifting-Personalizing The Message:
- Talking About Time:
- Time line
- Talking about time
- Vocabulary building: time adverbs
- Review of lessons 15-20
- Classifiers And The World Games For The Deaf:
- Paintbrush of ASL
- Introduction to classifiers: person
- Exploring with classifiers
- Using classifiers in a dialogue
- Going to the world games for the deaf
- Socializing and the world games for the deaf
- Signing and the world games for the deaf
- Review of lessons 21-26
- Deaf Organizations:
- Deaf And Hearing World:
- Sports and leisure activities: part 1
- Sports and leisure activities: part 2
- Dentist and you
- Tooth comes out
- Visit to the doctor
- What the doctor said
- Vocabulary building: health and body related
- Review of lessons 27-33
- Poems And Humor:
- Traveling with ASL:
- Travel plans
- Travel schedules
- More places to visit
- Review lessons 34-36
- Appendix
- Index.
