Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Introduction to Catalan Sign Language: Speaking with Your Hands and Hearing with Your Eyes
Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona
This course was an introduction to communication in Catalan Sign Language that focused on its use in daily life, its grammar, the deaf community, and the production of brief dialogues in sign.
10 weeks, 4 hours per week
Delfina Aliaga
Adjunct lecturer, Sign Linguistics
Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona
Cristina Gelpí
Senior lecturer, coordinator
Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore Catalan Sign Language as a natural language of the Catalonia deaf community
- Identify Catalan Sign Language characteristics, including basic components of grammar, morphology and basic syntax
- Produce simple sentences in Catalan Sign Language in simple terms, ask simple questions about everyday topics, and use expressions and simple phrases to describe well-known places
- Record common signs and expressions, signed slowly and clearly, that relate to yourself, family life and work, and the immediate environment
Syllabus
- Say Hello! Communication barriers
- Finger gymnastics and facial expression. Natural languages
- Finger spelling. Name sign
- Numbers and food. Deaf community and interpretation in LSC
- Daily activities. Arbitrariness and iconicity. Legal status
- Jobs and family. Basic components
- Basic syntax. Interrogative clauses
- Plural. Agreement
- Sign space
- Colours. Tell a story
Issued on 13th January 2018
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