Course content

TEGN2011 is based on TEGN1102, TEGN1106, TEGN1100 and TEGN1103. Students will work on developing their linguistic resources in Norwegian and in Norwegian Sign Language, and be made aware of how genre, register and style, for example, can be used in different situations. Discourse mapping will be introduced as a tool of analysis in linguistic communication. Both in the classroom and during practicum, students will be introduced to different ways that deaf/deaf blind/deafened people use their linguistic resources. They will learn basic techniques for guiding (deaf-blind persons) and haptic communication. The students will sign a professional confidentiality agreement as part of their preparation for practicum.

Learning outcome

Candidates

- can describe linguistic and communicative resources used in different situations

- can use discourse mapping at a basic level when working to extend their vocabulary and linguistic repertoire in new domains

- can describe how deaf, deaf-blind and deafened people use and interact with different languages, and can describe communicative possibilities and challenges with regard to different degrees of combined sensory loss

Learning methods and activities

• Lectures, groupdiscussions, exercises, develop own linguistic abilities and practicum.
• 80% compulsory attendance. (Failure to comply with this can be compensated in accordance with instructions from the teacher.)
• Practicum: TEGN2011 contains one week of obligatory observation practicum. This usually consists in the students visiting one to two different places during the week, where they can observe different types of communication in Norwegian Sign Language
• Block teaching

Compulsory assignments

• Oral assignment based on discourse mapping and analysis
• Written assignment based on observations in practicum
• Practical assignment
• Practicum
• Oral assignment based on comparative analysis of Norwegian and Norwegian sign language

Specific conditions

Required previous knowledge

Completed the first year of the BA-program in Norwegian Sign Language, the one-year program in Norwegian Sign Language or the equivalent from another educational institution in Norway.

Course materials

The reading list will be announced at the beginning of the semester