2018-2019 Catalog 
    
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2018-2019 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

SLNG 1207 - Intra-lingual Skills Development for Interpreters


2 Credits (1 hr. lec., 3 hrs. lab.) Development of intra-lingual (English to English) skills necessary for future development of inter-lingual (English to American Sign Language [ASL]/ASL to English) skills. Focus on linguistic and cognitive skills development in areas of paraphrasing, summarizing, main idea identification, comprehension, memory, delayed repetition, multi-tasking, vocabulary, and cultural literacy. Prerequisite: None.
Course Outcomes
1 - Utilize visualization skills and apply them to form and meaning of written and spoken texts.
2 - Paraphrase propositions and discourse.
3 - Identify main and supporting ideas.
4 - Re-tell written and spoken material.
5 - Demonstrate the use of working and long-term memory, cloze skills, and recognition of patterns.
6 - Demonstrate a broader vocabulary and cultural literacy.