American Sign Language as a foreign language in public universities and
colleges. He is of a contrary view regarding considering American Sign
Language as a foreign language. The author argues that American Sign
Language should not in any way be considered a foreign language since
it does not meet the necessary criteria to be considered as a foreign
language. According to the author, a foreign language should be distinct
and identified with people of a given geographical location preferably a
sovereign state. It should also have a unique and very distinctive culture
associated with it just like other world foreign languages such as
Arabic, Spanish, French, …show more content…
Even though knowledge on American Sign Language
comes in handy in many professions, students should not deny
themselves an opportunity to benefit from studying a real foreign
language. Another claim by the author is that some students are taking
American Sign Language as an escape from the more involving and
difficult foreign language options to choose from presented to them. The
students opt for American Sign Language since they think it cool as it
is more visual and they can easily relate to it. He backs up this claim by
an extract from the times where a junior at The University of Vermont
is quoted to have said that she got “hooked and kept going ” suggesting
she found American Sign Language Interesting. The READING
RESPONSE 3 author only sees this as a compromise on the quality and
standard of foreign language requirement and he feels that the objective
of preparing students for the global economy will not realized
The misconception here is that the push for recognition of American
Sign Language as a foreign language also involves the deaf and it