DHHE 0600: English Foundations - Bridge
Effective date
September 2021
Department
Deaf & Hard of Hearing
Description
English Foundations - Bridge focuses on effective communication in ASL and English in multiple contexts including personal, educational, and workplace contexts of basic complexity. Learners differentiate and produce a variety of genre types used in personal, educational, and workplace contexts.
Prerequisites
Department approval required.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Receptive ASL
o Identify individual greetings, introductions and goodwill expressions.
o Identify very short, simple instructions, commands and requests related to immediate personal needs.
o Identify strategies used to get attention and to request or offer assistance in situations of immediate personal need.
o Identify very simple information about highly familiar, concrete topics.
- Expressive ASL
o Use basic courtesy formulas and greetings.
o Give brief, simple, common, routine instructions to a familiar person.
o Make simple requests related to immediate personal needs (such as asking for assistance, the time).
o Give basic personal information in response to direct questions.
- Pre-Reading
o Identify a limited number of familiar pictures.
o “Read” an illustration.
o Identify and distinguish between ASL and English (written, through the air).
o Identify whether an ASL sentence or written English sentence makes sense.
- Reading
o Read single words, phrases, simple sentences to self then give meaning in ASL.
o Understand everyday greetings.
o Read simple single words and phrases in face-to-face communication with non-signers.
o Locate information from very short, common, formatted texts (such as simple sections of forms, maps, diagrams, traffic signs, and civic symbols).
o Recognize names, numbers, and some basic words in very simple, short texts related to everyday situations and immediate needs.
- Pre-Writing
o Recognize the connection between expressive language and print.
o Recognize the value placed by society on reading and writing.
o Demonstrate pencil-pen holding skills.
o Demonstrate page orientation (left to right, top, bottom, lines, margins, double spacing, indents).
o Demonstrate familiarity with basic mechanics of print at the letter and word level.
- Writing
o Form most upper and lower case letters correctly.
o Demonstrate ability to place text correctly on the lines most of the time.
o Demonstrate understanding of spaces between letters and words.
o Use handshape holders to write new words.
o Begin to use writing to reinforce learning.
o Copy from a simple model with some accuracy.
o Provide simple words and phrases to non-signers in response to face-to-face signed and written requests.
Prior Learning Assessment & Recognition (PLAR)
None
Hours
Lecture, Online, Seminar, Tutorial: 204
Clinical, Lab, Rehearsal, Shop, Kitchen, Simulation, Studio: 51
Total Hours: 255
Instructional Strategies
Modelling, coaching, focused reading, thematic instruction, journalling, stations, project-based learning.
The course may be offered online or in a hybrid format (blend of face-to-face and online instruction).
Grading System
Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory
Evaluation Plan
Type
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Percentage
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Assessment activity
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Portfolio
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100
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A range of tasks including self- and peer-assessment, writing tasks, learning photographs, poster presentations, simulations, quizzes, demonstrations.
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Course topics
- Circles: Self, Family, Relationships
At Home & in the Community
Travel and Transportation
Notes:
- Course contents and descriptions, offerings and schedules are subject to change without notice.
- Students are required to follow all College policies including ones that govern their educational experience at VCC. Policies are available on the VCC website at:
https://www.vcc.ca/about/governance--policies/policies/.
- To find out if there are existing transfer agreements for this course, visit the BC Transfer Guide at https://www.bctransferguide.ca.