SLNG 1207 - Intra-lingual Skills Development for Interpreters

Credit Hours: 2
Contact Hours - Lecture: 1 Lab: 3
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.
Student Learning 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.