BSL Level 2

BSL Level 2
Have you completed your BSL Level 1 and looking to progress?  Look no further as Remark! Training offers intensive BSL level 2 classes.  Courses generally start in September and February.

Aims
This qualification is designed to enable you to develop an ability to communicate with Deaf people using BSL in a range of familiar contexts, participating in longer and more open-ended exchanges than at Level One.  The course will develop functional communication in BSL about a range of real life, routine and daily experiences.  You will be able to deal with more routine language tasks and have sufficient grasp of grammar to cope with some non-routine tasks.

Course information
The course is divided into three units and candidates are required to pass all units to gain the Signature qualification.

BSL 201 – develops your receptive skills
This unit covers topics linked to meeting deaf people. You will learn how to receive and understand specific information and instructions, and how to understand descriptions, explanations and statements.
BSL 202 – develops your productive skills
This unit covers topics to help you when signing with a deaf person.  You will learn how to use simple structures and phrases and use BSL appropriate to the context of the discussion.
BSL 203 – develops your conversational skills
This unit covers topics to help you converse with a deaf person.  You will learn how to understand routine questions and responses, requests and views and understand the main points of routine conversations.

There are four themes which run throughout this qualification:

• Everyday conversation
• Eating and drinking
• Shopping and spending
• Travel and holidays

You will study the theme everyday conversation, and two from the remaining three themes.

Assessments
Assessments take place throughout the course during normal class time and the assessment fees are included in the course price.

Entry requirements
You must have a Signature / CACDP BSL Level 1 qualification or equivalent.