Elective course:Improving visual-spatial competence in PJM (polish sign language) 3200-L2-PF-DSW2
Throughout the course students will improve their abilities to create and comprehend visual-spatial utterances. Special attention will be devoted to mastering the use of facial expression and identifying its affective and grammatical features in the utterances of native signers of PJM. Students willl aslo learn to generate as well as comprehend utterances signed in both syntctic and topographic space, including the use of classifiers, agreement and spatial verbs and role-shift. The course will further focus on improving students' articulation of manual as well as non-manual signs, work of the whole body and its articulators.
If classroom learning is impossible, classes will be conducted with the help of distance communication tools, most probably Google Meet and others recommended by the University.
Type of course
Mode
Prerequisites (description)
Course coordinators
Term 2024Z: | Term 2023Z: |
Learning outcomes
KNOWLEDGE
On finishing the course the student:
- is aware of differences between non-manual elements of PJM both of grammatical and non-grammatical nature
- is aware of the importance of the ability to recognise and produce non-manual and spatial elements in signed communication
SKILLS
On finishing the course the student:
- has the skills of appropriate manual and non-manual articulation
- has passive and active competence in the production and reception of non-manual elements of signed utterances
- can understand and use grmmatical and para-grammatical elements of space in signed utterances
can understand and formulated utterances using classifier constructions, conditional structures and discourse elements characteristic of a sign language
SOCIAL COMPETENCIES
On finishing the course the student:
- is able to formulate as well as receive much more visual-spatial information used in the signed utterances of native signers of PJM, so s/he can bothe passively and actively participate in communicative situations with deaf people
- learns new methods of developing and maintaining her/his manual dexterity (flexibility of muscles and joints)
- learns new methods of maintaining the dexterity of body parts subject to exploitation due to heavy manual production (wrists, elbows, shoulders, spine)
Assessment criteria
Attendance, active participation in classess, oral presentation at the end of term.
All assignments within the components and during the course, as well as the final end-of-term written tests and assignments are graded according to the following criteria:
0-59% = failed, (2.0)
60-67% = satisfactory (3.0)
68-75% = satisfactory plus (3.5)
76-83% = good (4.0)
84-91% = good plus (4.5)
92-98% = very good (5.0)
99-100% = very good! (5.0!)
Students are required to attend all the classes in a given component of the course. The allowed number of unexcused absences in a given component is 2 per 30 contact hours. When the number of allowed absences is exceeded, the student will be given additional tasks aimed at making up for the material missed from the classes by that student. If the number of absences exceeds 50% of the component’s total number of contact hours, it will result in a negative grade from that component as well as the entire course.
Bibliography
Reading materials will be available during the first class.
Additional information
Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system: