AC9L1AU10U02 Year 9 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 Languages provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

apply knowledge of grammatical structures and features to predict meaning and compose a range of texts that contain complex structures and ideas

Elaborations

• 1

  applying signs as interjections or discourse markers, including fillers and conjunctions, for example, using spread handshape to pause, hold or replace voicing um or the sign

  COINCIDENCE

• 2 describing how short, signed texts use space – real space, topographic space, abstract space, viewer space and diagrammatic space – and recognising locations for present referents, non-present referents or abstract referents that do not exist in space
• 3 developing the use of composite utterances, that is, those that have elements of CAs, DSs, points and fully-lexical signs in the same utterance
• 4 identifying instances of DSs and their type, such as entity, handling or SASSs in increasingly complex Auslan texts and using these in own creation of texts
• 5 using appropriate CAs according to the context in an example of constructed dialogue
• 6 applying the different types of verb modification, such as spatial and directional, number of referents, the action over time, manner and intensification
• 7 understanding how verb modifications work as part of referential cohesion, for example, a signer establishes one referent on the left and then looks that way
• 8

  applying modal verbs and NMFs to express possibility, obligation and ability, for example,

  MIGHT

  and

  SHOULD

• 9 applying knowledge of how meaning or emphasis in phrases can be changed by reordering clauses or parts of clauses

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