Year 1 Auslan Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 1 Languages by the end of the year. Teachers can use it to guide assessment design, collect evidence of learning, and ensure planning stays aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9.
What Students Should Know
By the end of Year 2, students use Auslan to interact and share information related to the classroom and themselves. They use cues to respond to questions and instructions. They locate and convey key items of information in texts using non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They use familiar signs including fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts.
Students recognise and use the parameters of signs. They demonstrate understanding that Auslan has conventions and rules for signs and features of language. They give examples of similarities and differences between some features of Auslan and English. They understand that language is connected with culture and identity, and notice how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.
Content Descriptors by Strand
This standard is supported by 9 Content Descriptors:
Communicating meaning in Auslan
Interacting in Auslan
AC9L1AU2C01 exchange greetings and personal introductions and respond to classroom-related instructions and routines AC9L1AU2C02 participate in a range of play-based activities, using modelled expressions and visual cuesMediating meaning in and between languages
AC9L1AU2C03 locate, with support, key information in familiar texts, and respond using gestures, images, words and modelled phrases AC9L1AU2C04 recognise language that carries cultural meaning in everyday social interactionsCreating text in Auslan
AC9L1AU2C05 with support, create signed, visual and multimodal texts, using familiar fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing spaceUnderstanding language and culture
Understanding systems of language
AC9L1AU2U01 recognise modelled combinations of signs and use Handshape, Orientation, Location, Movement (HOLM) and non-manual features (NMFs) to make meaning AC9L1AU2U02 recognise that signs and features of language are used to construct meaning in Auslan AC9L1AU2U03 notice that Auslan has features that may be similar to or different from EnglishUnderstanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity
AC9L1AU2U04 notice that people use language in ways that reflect cultural identityAt a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communicating meaning in Auslan | Interacting in Auslan | 2 | 18 |
| Communicating meaning in Auslan | Mediating meaning in and between languages | 2 | 20 |
| Communicating meaning in Auslan | Creating text in Auslan | 1 | 10 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language | 3 | 30 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity | 1 | 9 |
| Total | 9 | 87 | |