Building ASL Interpreting and Translation Skills: Narratives for Practice (with DVD), 1st edition

Preface

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Part I:  Selections for Beginning ASL Students  

Chapter One:  Pronouns, Locations, and Use of Sign Space

Chapter Two:  Directional Verbs
Chapter Three:  Descriptive Adjectives 
Chapter Four:  Noun/Verb Pairs 

Chapter Five:  Topic/Comment  

Chapter Six:  Negation, Negative Incorporation & Modals    

Chapter Seven:  Classifiers:  Describing Location and Movement  

Chapter Eight:  Establishing Tense in ASL   

Chapter Nine:  Age, Time and Counting Numbers   

Chapter Ten:  Additional Work with Classifiers   

Chapter Eleven:  Expressing Negatives using None    

Chapter Twelve:  Additional Work with Noun/Verb Pairs   

Chapter Thirteen:  Conditionals  

Chapter Fourteen:  Use of Finish as a Conjunction

Chapter Fifteen:  Additional work with Verb Pairs   

Chapter Sixteen:  Giving Directions in ASL 

Chapter Seventeen:  Working With Time 

Chapter Eighteen:  Quantifiers  
Chapter Nineteen:  Repeatedly, Continually & Reduplication
Chapter Twenty:  Changing Adjectives to Indicate Repetition
Chapter Twenty-one:  Rhetorical Questions 
Chapter Twenty-two:  Additional Ways to Form Negatives 

Chapter Twenty-three: Additional Work Signing Topics 

Chapter Twenty-four:  Classifiers that Show Movement and Distance  

 

Part II:  Selections for Intermediate ASL Students

 

Chapter One:  Additional Work with Topic/Comment  
Chapter Two:  Using Reference Points to Mark Locations  

Chapter Three:  Using Semantic Classifiers to Mark Location & Movement 

Chapter Four:  Time 

Chapter Five:  Listing, Grouping, Prioritizing   

Chapter Six:  Role Shifting    

Chapter Seven:  Contrasting and Comparing   

Chapter Eight:  Instrument Classifiers  

Chapter Nine:  Characterization    

Chapter Ten:  More Work with Conjunctions   

Chapter Eleven:  Active/Passive Voice= 

Chapter Twelve:  Sequencing  

Chapter Thirteen:  Supplemental Selections 

Chapter Fourteen:  Supplemental Selections 

Chapter Fifteen:  Supplemental Selections 

Chapter Sixteen:  Supplemental Selections 

Chapter Seventeen:  Supplemental Selections 

Chapter Eighteen:  Supplemental Selections 

Chapter Nineteen:  Supplemental Selections 

Chapter Twenty:  Supplemental Selections

 

  Part III:  Multiple Meaning Words, Idioms, and Vocabulary Building

 

Chapter 1:  Run, Down, Call, Make, Look 

Chapter 2:  Place, Up, Break, Fix, By

Chapter 3:  Charge, Advance, Around, Back, Right

Chapter 4:  See, Take, Time, About, Raise 

Chapter 5:  Short, Bank, Fall, Get Out, Line

Chapter 6:  Put, Pass, Shake, Pick, On

Chapter 7:  After, Bare, Cool, Draw, Meet

Chapter Eight:  Box, Blow, Eat, Ring, Jump 

Chapter Nine:  Out, Use, Over, Kick, Mind 

Chapter Ten:  Bone, Miss, Low, Cut, Point 

Chapter Eleven:  Idioms 

Chapter Twelve:  Additional Work with Idioms 

Chapter Thirteen:  Additional Work with Idioms 

Chapter Fourteen:  Additional Work with Idioms

Chapter Fifteen:  Working with Idioms 

Chapter Sixteen:  Vocabulary Building Exercises

Chapter Seventeen:  Additional Vocabulary Building Activities

Chapter Eighteen:  Additional Vocabulary Building Activities

Chapter Nineteen:  Additional Vocabulary Building Activities

Chapter Twenty:  Additional Vocabulary Building Activities

 

Part IV:  Selections for  Interpreting and Transliterating

 

Chapter 1

Selection 1.1:  Reading Recovery

Selection 1.2:  The Wedding

Selection 1.3:  Baking Bread

Selection 1.4:  Applying for a Job

Selection 1.5:  Traveling to Europe

 

Chapter 2

Selection 2.1:  Award Winners

Selection 2.2:  Getting Stuck in the Mud

Selection 2.3:  Drive through Flu Shots

Selection 2.4:  Displays at the Grocery Store

Selection 2.5:  Dog Shows

 

Chapter Three

Selection 3.1:  Going Hunting in the Deer Stand

Selection 3.2:  Ice Skaters at the World Games

Selection 3.3:  Homes of the Rich and Famous

Selection 3.4:  Waiting Tables can be Hard Work

Selection 3.5:  Children’s Games

 

Chapter Four

Selection 4.1:  Slalom on the Ski Slopes

Selection 4.2:  The Food Pyramid

Selection 4.3:  Graduating From Gallaudet

Selection 4.4:  Daisies, Brownies, and Girl Scouts

Selection 4.5:  Tim’s Trip to the Kennel

 

Chapter Five

Selection 5.1:  Writing a Research Paper

Selection 5.2:  Using Examples and Illustrations

Selection 5.3:  Working with Students who Need Speech Therapy

Selection 5.4:  Comparing and Contrasting

Selection 5.5:  My First Grade Santa

 

Chapter Six

Selection 6.1:  Down Home Days

Selection 6.2:  Spinal Injury

Selection 6.3:  Using All My Smarts

Selection 6.4:  Main Processes of the Memory System

Selection 6.5:  My Dog

 

Chapter Seven

Selection 7.1: The Airport

Selection 7.2:  The Circle

Selection 7.3:  Classrooms Yesterday and Today

Selection 7.4:  First Immigration Wave:  Mid-1800s to Early 1900s

Selection 7.5:  The Smooth

 

Chapter Eight

Selection 8.1:  Terrain and Temperature

Selection 8.2:  Music:  Originals and Remakes

Selection 8.3:  Team Sports

Selection 8.4:  Bailey, Hudson and Taz

Selection 8.5:  Car Colors

 

Chapter Nine

Selection 9.1:  Coffee Pots versus Single-serving Coffee Containers

Selection 9.2:  The Traffic Ticket

Selection 9.3:  Video conferencing Technology

Selection 9.4:  Candidates for Governor Spout Platforms

Selection 9.5:  The Soup Bowls

 

Chapter Ten

Selection 10.1:  Banking Services

Selection 10.2:  The Bridal Show

Selection 10.3:  Interpreting Math Problems

Selection 10.4:  What is expected of the Educational Interpreter in the Elementary Setting?

Selection 10.5:  Literacy and the English Language Learner

 

Chapter Eleven

Selection 11.1:  Earl Warren

Selection 11.2:  The Solar System

Selection 11.3:  Time Zones

Selection 11.4:  Flying Kites

Selection 11.5:  Rescue from the Third Floor

 

Chapter Twelve

Selection 12.1:  Live versus Automated Phone Customer Service

Selection 12.2:  Teaching Deaf Studies in Included Classrooms

Selection 12.3:  Cruise Lines Keep Adding New Attractions

Selection 12.4:  Teaching Tolerance to Young Children

Selection 12.5:  Deaf, Deaf World

 

Chapter Thirteen

Selection 13.1:  The Blizzard

Selection 13.2:  Trying out for the Dance Line

Selection 13.3:  Bike Across America

Selection 13.4:  Cat Lovers

Selection 13.5:  The Hundredth Day of School

 

Chapter Fourteen

Selection 14.1:  A Walk in the Woods

Selection 14.2:  Barbara the Pig

Selection 14.3:  Violet’s Tanning Experience

Selection 14.4:  The Pizza Party

Selection 14.5:  The U Turn

 

Chapter Fifteen

Selection 15.1:  TTY’s

Selection 15.2:  Working as a Parking Lot Attendant at Disney World

Selection 15.3:  Getting Stuck in the Dressing Room

Selection 15.4:  The Money Pit

Selection 15.5:  Immersion Weekends for Interpreters

 

Chapter Sixteen

Selection 16.1:  Driving on the Ice

Selection 16.2:  Instructors

Selection 16.3:  The Cruise

Selection 16.4:  Adult Day Care

Selection 16.5:  Living with Deaf People

 

Chapter Seventeen

Selection 17.1:  Car Shows on MTV

Selection 17.2:  Levels of Cognitive Functioning

Selection 17.3:  Seasons of the Year

Selection 17.4:  How to be a Good Manager

Selection 17.5:  Local Fast Food Chain Pushes its New Image

 

Chapter Eighteen

Selection 18.1:  Travels by Renee

Selection 18.2:  My Tropical Fish Hobby

Selection 18.3:  Jimmy Carter

Selection 18.4:  Sky Warn for Deaf

Selection 18.5:  Jamaica

 

Chapter Nineteen

Selection 19.1:  Police Chaplain

Selection 19.2:  Ham Radio

Selection 19.3:  Conduct of Police Officers

Selection 19.4:  Death Notification

Selection 19.5:  A Story about My Dad

 

Chapter Twenty

Selection 20.1:  Let’s Talk about Wales

Selection 20.2:  A Lecture regarding Psychosocial Aspects of Deafness

Selection 20.3:  Feeding the Hungry across America

Selection 20.4:  My Best Friend Emily

Selection 20.5:  The Girls