English Equivalents - 2

Professional Studies - 0.8 CEUs

English Equivalents will assist participants to develop lexical banks or options to vary interpretations in English. The English Equivalents series is designed to help students and interpreters confidently manage the flow of information exchange from ASL to English and from English to ASL.

This part (part 2 of 3) is primarily focused on alternate English phrases for common signs. It will help you to add variety, nuance, and life to your ASL-to-English work. This portion of the workshop will cover the following categories:

1. Dialogue/Conversational
2. Conjunctions
3. Semantics
4. "The Use of Think"
5. Idioms
6. Time Indicators
7. Regional Variants

Educational Objectives:

This WWorkshop will teach techniques to:

• Develop a basic understanding of ASL linguistics in layperson terms
• Develop lexical equivalents to Sign items
• Become aware of idiomatic English usage.

The mandatory activities will ask for you to copy some signs and facial expressions and to do some light ASL to English work (typed).

This workshop is presented in ASL.

Content Knowledge Level: Little

Please be advised that this workshop contains a small amount of PG language.