Synopses & Reviews
Learn American Sign Language quickly and easily with up to 800 signs!With this fun and informative learning guide, you'll master American Sign Language in no time. For anyone looking for a basic introduction to ASL, you'll be able to follow easy step-by-step instructions, illustrated with photos showing the face and upper body where many inflections are needed for signing.
Learn to sign important words such as feelings, actions and more.
Hundreds of signs are found inside Learn American Sign Language. Professer of ASL Russell Scott Rosen will guide you through signing commonly used words like:
People Signs
Pronouns and Question Signs
Animal Signs
Time Signs
Courtesy Signs
School Signs
Color Signs
Weather Signs
Descriptive Signs
Food and Drink Signs
Occupation Signs
Negation Signs
Money Signs
Clothes Signs
Building Signs
Transportation Signs
Sports Signs
Nature Signs
Medical Signs
Travel Signs
Additionally, you'll discover instructions for finger spelling, numbers, inflections, hand shapes.
Synopsis
American Sign Language (ASL) is a vibrant, easy-to-learn language that is used by approximately half a million people each day. Current with the latest additions to ASL and filled with thousands of brand new photographs by deaf actors, Learn American Sign Language is the most comprehensive guide of its kind.
With it, you will be able to:
-Learn more than 800 signs, including signs for school, the workplace, around the house, out and about, food and drink, nature, emotions, small talk, and more.
-Unlock the storytelling possibilities of ASL with classifiers, easy ways to modify signs that can turn "fishing" into "catching a big fish" and "walking" into "walking with a group."
-Find out how to make sentences with signs, use the proper facial expressions with your signs, and other vital tips.
About the Author
Russell Scott Rosen holds a Bachelor's in Anthropology from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Education from Columbia University. He was the Coordinator of the Program in the Teaching of American Sign Language as a Foreign Language, at Teachers College, Columbia University. His research interests are in the anthropology and history of deaf people and their community and culture, psycholinguistics, linguistics, and applied linguistics of American Sign Language, and second language acquisition, instruction, curriculum, and assessment, and the philosophy of disability. He has published works and referred submissions in journals such as The Modern Language Journal, Disability and Society, Sign Language Studies, Senses and Society, Disability Studies Quarterly, and Sign Language and Linguistics.