American Sign Language and Deaf Culture 10, 20, 30

(a)	Use and reflect on a variety of cognitive strategies* to enhance communication, such as: compare and contrast aspects of ASL and students’ other languages; group together sets of signs (vocabulary, structures) with similar characteristics; or, make information easier to understand and remember by using reference points and initiatives like classifiers and body shifts.
(b)	Demonstrate and reflect on a variety of interactive and affective strategies* to enhance communication, such as: work cooperatively with peers in small groups to rehearse or role-play language use; assess feedback from conversation partner to recognize when the message has not been understood (e.g., squinted eyes, blank look, head shake) and start again using a different tactic when communication breaks down; or, use new signs which occur in conversations, making use of them as soon as appropriate and asking for confirmation that a form used is appropriate.
(c)	Practise and reflect on a variety of productive strategies* to enhance communication, such as: apply knowledge of sentence patterns and ASL structure to form new sentences; employ circumlocution and definition to compensate for gaps in vocabulary; or practise facial expressions, movement, location and non-manual signals (e.g., facial expressions, mouth morphemes, head nod/shake, shoulder shift/contrastive structure/spatial organization) to assist in effective communication.