Learn American Sign Language

Description

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, and Color Signs. Additionally, you'll discover instructions for finger spelling, numbers, inflections, hand shapes.

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.