ASL Self Assessment Guidelines

During the semester, you have had many opportunities to create dialogues or other expressive presentations in ASL. You have been given feedback on these assignments/presentations from your instructor and your peers, informing you on your strengths and areas needing improvement in ASL. In addition, you have also had opportunities to interact with Deaf individuals in various capacities (e.g. videophone, Deaf events, etc.) and have analyzed and discussed details of and from these interactions. Your assignment is to review your ASL production from the beginning of ASL I until now, with a concentration on your progress and improvement in your current course, and then write a responseincluding specific examples, with details!!! marking this progress. The idea is to analyze these clips and presentations for growth and improvement in your ASL skills, vocabulary, and other expressive qualities. To prepare for your self-assessment narrative, you should: review and discuss your previous goals and ASL production focus areas and comment on the progress youve since you established those goals. Add details of when and why you made the initial goals for your ASL acquisition. Analyze (in detail, with examples from your assignments and/or memory) linguistic information (video clips, dialogue feedback from me and your peers, etc.) that is specific to this course. o You should consider dialogues and presentations, video journals and expressive homework practices, interactions with members of the deaf community, and general class interaction. You should look at and include specific feedback from your instructor and students, when applicable. Review and refer to any previous self assessments that you made on specific assignments for this course or previous courses. These may be posted in BlackBoard Threaded Discussions. Include some details from these assignment self-assessments; they will help inform your broader self assessment for this course/assignment.

Then, you will write a response (at least 3-4 pages, though it is likely to be more than this) that shows your reflection on your cumulative ASL production. How have you grown/improved? What are the differences? You must cite at least three general areas of strength/needing improvement for your current course and include specific examples/details. o Then for each general area, you will elaborate on and give specific analysis of your ASL production, remarking on your perspective on ASL production. Are you Satisfied (S), Slightly Satisfied (SS), or Not Satisfied (NS) with your ASL production in each area? Why? reflect on what you think helped (or hindered) your improvement. Be specific! Do not just say that you practiced a lot! state at least two specific goals for improvement, explaining how you think you will meet those goals! Lastly, you must reflect on your ASL goals and objectives from previous courses (at least 2) and give details on whether these goals have been realized at this present time. o For each area, you should include commentary and examples of how and why you have noticed improvement and/or what goals have yet to be realized (and if you can, why they have not yet been realized). In your reflections, you may want to focus on topics such as Complexity of your sentencesDid you stick with the simplest questions/answers or did you try to add details to your questions/comments? Use of proper ASL grammar Did your sentences follow English word order or did you use Topic Comment and Object-Subject-Verb formation (when appropriate)? Fluency of your sentences/sign productionhow well/smoothly did your signs flow together? Did you pause a lot? Were you mouthing English too much?

This assignment is due on the date specified by your instructor.

Remember that if you are continuing on to ASL 2, 3, or 4, you should keep a copy of your self assessment(s) and keep your video journals/documentation of recordings for future use. They are required in future classes.