🔮ASL Level 6, Activity 11-Future of Sign Language (Online)
Description:
Students will begin with a fingerspelling quiz and vocabulary review, they will then watch 2 videos on technological advances in regard to sign language. This leads to a discussion on the future of sign language.
Semantic Topics: Deaf Culture, Technology, Future, Controversial
Grammatical Structures: Fingerspelling, Vocabulary
Products: Deaf Culture, Technology
Practices: Discussion surrounding how technology is impacting the Deaf community
Perspectives: As technology advances, what advantages and disadvantages do the Deaf community face?
Standards
NCSSFL-ACTFL World-Readiness Standards:
- Standard 3.2 Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through American Sign Language and Deaf culture.
- Standard 4.2 Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of culture through comparisons of American Deaf culture and their own.
Idaho Content Standards for World Languages:
- Objective: COMM 2.1 Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
- Objective: CLTR 1.2 Explain the relationship between cultural practices/behaviors and the perspectives that represent the
target culture’s view of the world. - Objective: CLTR 2.2 Describe the connections of products from the target culture with the practices and perspectives of the
culture.
Can-Do Statements
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can interpret and infer meaning from complex, academic, and professional texts on a range of unfamiliar, abstract, and specialized issues that are spoken, written, or signed.
- I can objectively evaluate products and practices and mediate perspectives.
Warm-up
Materials Needed for Warm-up
- Ask students to type their name and ID # for attendance
- “YOU LIST 2- NAME, ID NUMBER TYPE”
- Start with 5-7 minute conversations in breakout rooms
- “START BREAKOUT ROOMS TIME 5-7 MINUTE CONVERSATION DISCUSS WHATEVER”
- (FS Practice)
- Instructions: Fingerspell the 6 words and then teach them the signs!
- Goal: To improve receptive skills and learn new signs!
- “NOW FINGERSPELL PRACTICE 6 WORDS. FINISH NEW SIGNS LEARN”
| FS Words | ASL Signs |
| INTERNATIONAL | “I” circle |
| HINDERED | B’s cross each other |
| ECHO | L: open 5 R: touches ear (1) hits L (Closed fist), open-5, fingers wiggling |
| DISABILITY | D-A |
| DISAPPEAR | L: Open-5 R: “1” downwards |
| ACCEPT | Mod C – close |
- Review Vocabulary:
- DISABILITY
- Dom hand shaped “D” with palm oriented outwards. Slide dom hand to the side while simultaneously changing hand shape to “A”.
- DEAF
- Dom hand shaped “1”, tip of dom forefinger points to the ear and then to the tip of mouth.
- INTERNATIONAL
- Both left and right hand shaped “I”. With dom hand resting on top of non-dom hand. Begin to rotate one time fully around non-dom hand and ending in the starting position.
- LANGUAGE
- Both left and right hand shapes “L” with pal orientation downward. Connect both hands at the thumbs, then slide hands outwards to either side of torso.
- DISABILITY
- Have students take turns answering the discussion question
- What other signed language would you want to learn?
- OTHER SIGNED LANGUAGE YOU WANT TO LEARN WHAT?
- What other signed language would you want to learn?
- Opening Video:
- Link to article: (Share with students!)
- Opening Question:
- How do you feel about this new technology that was proposed in 2019?
- “NEW TECHNOLOGY PROPOSED 2019 YOU FEEL HOW?”
- How do you feel about this new technology that was proposed in 2019?
Main Activity
Materials Needed for Main Activity
We will be talking about the future of ASL!
“NOW DAY FUTURE ASL DISCUSS”
Lab instructor instructions:
- Students have to sign the questions in ASL gloss!
- Send the questions link in the chat
- (There’s a character limit, so you may need to split them in half)
- Put them into breakout rooms (2-3 per group)
- Pop into rooms and join in the convo!
- This activity can also be facilitated as a group discussion
- Make sure students take turns signing the questions to the group
“ME QUESTIONS SEND. BREAKOUT ROOMS QUESTIONS ASL fs-GLOSS SIGN TAKE TURNS”
Wrap-up
- Why do you think there is such a common misconception that sign language is universal?
- “MANY PEOPLE THINK SIGN LANGUAGE UNIVERSAL WHY?”
- How do you explain to someone that Deaf people need to know how to read and write to be able to function in society?
- “YOU DEAF PEOPLE KNOW READ [SHIFT] WRITE NEED JOIN SOCIETY YOU EXPLAIN HOW?”
- Would it be possible to have a universal sign language without a universal spoken language?
- “UNIVERSAL SIGN LANGUAGE WITHOUT UNIVERSAL SPOKEN LANGUAGE POSSIBLE HAVE?”
Deaf Culture
It is considered offensive to call a Deaf person disabled. Most Deaf people take pride in their identity and prefer being labeled as Deaf.
End of Lab:
- Sign or show Can-Do statements once more and have students evaluate their confidence
- (Use thumbs up/ thumbs down or have them rate 1-5 on how they feel after the activity)
- Encourage students to be honest in their self-evaluation
- Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future labs!
Can-Do Statements
NCSSFL-ACTFL Can-Do Statements:
- I can interpret and infer meaning from complex, academic, and professional texts on a range of unfamiliar, abstract, and specialized issues that are spoken, written, or signed.
- I can objectively evaluate products and practices and mediate perspectives.
