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The Goshen College Record: Online Edition - Record
At the onset of the 2006-07 academic year at Goshen College, many changes were made within the administration and faculty. While some people transferred to different jobs, others were hired to new positions. Among these fresh members is Julie White Armstrong, a nationally certified ASL/English interpreter since 1993.
White Armstrong currently serves as Goshen College’s assistant professor of American Sign Language, a popular program of study that gives students many opportunities for reaching out and expanding their language and communication skills with a distinctive minority group.
According to White Armstrong, “My role is to guide students along their paths of finding out who they are and what they want to do with their lives,” which she stresses is a lifelong journey.
The ASL program and curriculum at Goshen College has been growing in the past years, inviting talented ASL interpreter educators to continue driving the program down a creative and original track. This unique direction beckoned White Armstrong, who was working on her doctorate full time as well as teaching and interpreting.
After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in special education and a master’s degree in linguistics from Ball State University, White Armstrong’s interpreting pedagogy has been embraced at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis, Ball State University and Valparaiso University. She served as a research assistant at Ball State, working with several projects involving American Sign Language and “a particular part of its discourse with narratives,” said White Armstrong. “One of the questions within the research was to investigate how native and non-native users of ASL negotiate a particular feature.”
Now that she resides in Goshen, White Armstrong has begun working on her goals for the next year. “I hope to see the ASL interpreting program continue to grow and become one of the best programs in the nation,” she said. “Interpreters live exciting lives. We are privileged to be in very intimate parts of Deaf people’s lives…I love doing work where Deaf people are truly empowered and those within the majority culture ‘get it.’”
So far, White Armstrong has felt at home at Goshen. The faculty and staff “are so welcoming and the students have been a blast!” said White Armstrong.
To those interested in ASL, White Armstrong said, “Interpreting is not an easy task. To be a good learner of ASL, you must be in it as much as you can!” However, she maintains that befriending and working with a Deaf person provides “a learning experience you can’t find in the classroom.”
At the onset of the 2006-07 academic year at Goshen College, many changes were made within the administration and faculty. While some people transferred to different jobs, others were hired to new positions. Among these fresh members is Julie White Armstrong, a nationally certified ASL/English interpreter since 1993.
White Armstrong currently serves as Goshen College’s assistant professor of American Sign Language, a popular program of study that gives students many opportunities for reaching out and expanding their language and communication skills with a distinctive minority group.
According to White Armstrong, “My role is to guide students along their paths of finding out who they are and what they want to do with their lives,” which she stresses is a lifelong journey.
The ASL program and curriculum at Goshen College has been growing in the past years, inviting talented ASL interpreter educators to continue driving the program down a creative and original track. This unique direction beckoned White Armstrong, who was working on her doctorate full time as well as teaching and interpreting.
After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in special education and a master’s degree in linguistics from Ball State University, White Armstrong’s interpreting pedagogy has been embraced at Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis, Ball State University and Valparaiso University. She served as a research assistant at Ball State, working with several projects involving American Sign Language and “a particular part of its discourse with narratives,” said White Armstrong. “One of the questions within the research was to investigate how native and non-native users of ASL negotiate a particular feature.”
Now that she resides in Goshen, White Armstrong has begun working on her goals for the next year. “I hope to see the ASL interpreting program continue to grow and become one of the best programs in the nation,” she said. “Interpreters live exciting lives. We are privileged to be in very intimate parts of Deaf people’s lives…I love doing work where Deaf people are truly empowered and those within the majority culture ‘get it.’”
So far, White Armstrong has felt at home at Goshen. The faculty and staff “are so welcoming and the students have been a blast!” said White Armstrong.
To those interested in ASL, White Armstrong said, “Interpreting is not an easy task. To be a good learner of ASL, you must be in it as much as you can!” However, she maintains that befriending and working with a Deaf person provides “a learning experience you can’t find in the classroom.”