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ASL Discourse Mastery: Enhancing Deaf Students’ Linguistic Growth

This program focuses on enhancing Deaf students' ASL and English discourse competence through a modified morning meeting structure. Students will develop metalinguistic awareness, group communication skills, and cultural identification. Features include ASL conversational practice, group activities, sharing sessions, and news announcements to foster communicative competence, language skills, and social interaction. The morning meeting serves as a platform for language development, academic language acquisition, and socio-cultural awareness to improve students' overall discourse competency. Through teacher modeling, peer-mediated learning, and reflective practice, students will access the social world through effective communication.

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ASL Discourse Mastery: Enhancing Deaf Students’ Linguistic Growth

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  1. A Meeting of Minds: Developing ASL Discourse Through a Morning Meeting Or: Discourse Competency in 15 minutes a Day

  2. Goals for the Morning Meeting • To modify existing morning meeting structures and events to specifically facilitate the linguistic growth of Deaf students in both ASL and English • To develop group communication skills and ASL discourse competence

  3. Goals…. • To increase students’ metalinguistic awareness of and skill in using ASL and English • To increase students’ identification with the culture of Deaf people

  4. Why a morning meeting? • Students must develop conversational language in order to develop academic language • Deaf students from hearing families need support in developing conversational skills in ASL • After preschool, little instructional time is devoted to developing discourse competence

  5. What is ASL discourse competence? • The ability to use eye gaze, tactile cues and visual cues appropriately • The ability to use ASL to converse, question, discuss, joke and obtain information

  6. Why is ASL discourse competence so important? • The lack of sophisticated competence translates into limited academic achievement • Vital for full participation in class • ASL is a significant part of being Deaf

  7. Features of the Morning Meeting • Greeting • Group Activity • Sharing • News and Announcements

  8. Greeting • Written message uses ASL and English • Co-operative and peer mediated • Practices ASL conversational skills • Builds metalanguage

  9. Group Activity • Builds community • Uses language based games to teach aspects of ASL poetry/storytelling • Develops knowledge of and skill in using ASL

  10. Sharing • Makes connections between home and school • Builds public speaking, listening and questioning skills • Language development—”I+1”

  11. News and Announcements • Cognitively demanding—abstract • Develops academic language • Develops socio-cultural awareness • Engages the students in ‘real talk’

  12. Learning Features • Teacher modeling/scaffolding • Peer-mediated learning • Reflective talk/self-evaluation • Real talk

  13. Through the Morning Meeting, the students will develop the following: • Communicative Competence • Language competence • Group process skills • Ways of accessing the social world to get information

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