This course guides intermediate-advanced ASL users to focus on developing skills in comprehending and using ASL narrative techniques, classifiers and locatives, and ASL non-manual markers with the mouth. Students will advance their skills in creating cohesive ASL discourse using appropriate discourse topic and transition markers. Students will also apply skills related to discourse mapping of ASL texts and reconstruct ASL discourse from diagrams of their own design. This course is required for students in the Sign Language Interpretation program.
Prerequisites
Course type
This course is offered as part of a VCC program and cannot be taken individually.
International students: Eligibility is determined at the program level. Visit the program page for international student requirements and application information.
- Sentence structures, vocabulary and narrative techniques: – Non-manual markers made with the mouth – Rhetorical questions – Relative clauses – Use of left/right space for comparisons – Constructed dialogue and constructed action – Time/tense markers and use of timelines – Discourse genres: instructional, argumentative, informational, expository & persuasive – 7 expansion/contextualization techniques
- Building knowledge of ASL’s numbering systems: – Variations in context-specific ordinal number formats – Variations in context-specific cardinal number formats – Money-related numbers and vocabulary
- Narrating about major decisions, accidents, money management: – Discourse markers for sequencing, comparing, explaining – Related verbs and other vocabulary – Sharing and giving opinions
- Introduction to Deaf advocacy organizations and events: – Local, provincial, national, international
Simulation or actual presentation of a candidate’s abilities, live and/or video-recorded. The demonstration may include, but is not limited to, a variety of language samples.
Course schedules
Select your program to see the available course schedules.
| CRN# | Duration | Delivery | Location | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72588 |
September 8, 2026 to December 15, 2026 |
Lecture | VCC Broadway Building A | See full schedule |
Online courses listed without scheduled meeting times can be completed on your own schedule. All self-paced courses have on-campus tests. Off-site certified invigilation centres may be used at the student's expense.
How to take this course
This course is offered as part of a VCC program only.
Contact us
If you have any questions, please email at [email protected].
† This information is intended as a guideline only. Program and course details are subject to change with the approval of VCC's Board of Governors.