American Sign Language for everyone
DVD - 2023
"In American Sign Language for Everyone, Dr. Julia Silvestri--a native user of American Sign Language (ASL) and member of the Deaf community--will show you how to use this unique language to meet people, share information about the world around you, express your opinion, and enjoy ASL literary forms. In 24 engaging lessons, Dr. Silvestri will teach you the manual alphabet, and many dozen signs to enable you to converse in this powerful visuospatial language.--Publisher's website.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Educational films
Instructional films
Lectures
Nonfiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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Chantilly, VA :
The Teaching Company
[2023]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Main Author
- Corporate Author
- Item Description
- "Wondrium,Topic: Literature & language, Subtopic: Language learning"--Cover.
24 lectures, approximately 29 minutes each.
Title from disc label.
Program content: ©2023.
"Course No. 20040"--Disc labels and container. - Physical Description
- 4 videodiscs (692 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course pamphlet (29 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)
- Format
- DVD.
- ISBN
- 9781644654668
- Disc 1. Gestural language and communication
- The ASL alphabet
- Numbers in ASL
- The importance of introductions in deaf culture
- Facial expressions and greetings in ASL
- The linguistic parameters of ASL Disc 2. Asking questions in ASL
- Making commands in ASL
- Using semantic classifiers in ASL
- Signing about food and dining in ASL
- Time expressions in ASL
- Discussing location and transportation in ASL
- Disc 3. Describing educational experiences in ASL
- The importance of community in deaf culture
- Topicalization and spatialization in ASL
- Describing settings in ASL
- Describing people in ASL
- Discussing social activities in ASL Disc 4. Narrative structure in ASL
- Storytelling and handshape stories
- Visual vernacular and ASL performances
- ASL poetry
- Symbolism and figurative language in ASL
- Bring it all together: Opinion statements.