AC9L1AU10U01
Years 9 to 10
Languages
AC9L1AU10U01 | Years 9 to 10 Auslan: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor apply features and conventions of sign production to extend fluency in response to a range of contexts, purposes and audiences
First language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 9 to 10 Auslan · First language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration applying path movements of signs, such as primary-path and local movements and secondary-repeated local movements during a path movement or when a hand is staying still
- • Elaboration using subtle NMFs to convey meaning effectively, such as a slightly raised eyebrow or quick eye-gaze change in a role-play or in narrating an event
- • Elaboration applying variation in handshapes and one-handed, 2-handed and double-handed signs
- • Elaboration identifying and keeping a class record of how signs are classed into 3 categories: manual, non-manual, multi-channel
- • Elaboration modifying pace and signing space for emphasis in different contexts such as a large group presentation or small group to share a secret
- • Elaboration applying signs with different levels of iconicity, for example, those that are fully transparent, translucent or arbitrary
- • Elaboration using different types of fingerspelling depending on the context, purpose and audience, for example, tactile fingerspelling and international forms of fingerspelling
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- • Elaboration exploring best-practice strategies for capturing partly-lexicalised signs for digital or online dictionaries or resources
- • Elaboration applying knowledge of iconicity in signed languages, for example, how the path movement of a verb can show the timing of an action, for example, PRO1 WAIT DS:FAST-REPEAT PRO2, observing that English can do the same with changes to the length of words, for example, I've been waiting a loooooong time for you
- • Elaboration explaining the use of mouth morphemes to add meaning to a discourse, by commenting on a recorded interview in Auslan or signed news bulletin
- • Elaboration analysing and discussing a signer’s use of pausing in a signed description or information report and how it can modify the meaning of a signed phrase
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