AC9L1AU2U02 Year 1 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 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.

recognise that signs and features of language are used to construct meaning in Auslan

Elaborations

• 1 showing understanding of signing space, movement, CAs, DSs and NMFs, such as using medium signing space for normal signed discourse and larger space for more energetic/emotional signed discourse, or smaller space for discreet signed discourse
• 2

  understanding how to create complete sentences through movement within signs, for example,

  FINISHED CALL PRO3 (sign moves from the signer to referent)

  I called him.

  PRO2 HELP PRO3(PL) (the sign HELP moves from the referent location to the signer’s body, expressing that the help was given to them)

  You helped them.

• 3 identifying how DSs can be represented by handshapes and SASSs, for example, a person, pole or tree can be represented by a pointer handshape, a cylinder can be traced by a cup handshape, and SASSs can also be used to show size and length of an object such as a ruler
• 4

  understanding that signing involves a combination of signs, CAs and DSs to convey detailed information, for example, The man walked slowly can be expressed as

  MAN WALK SLOW

  or

  PT+f DS:MAN-WALKS-SLOWLY

  or

  CA:MAN-SWINGS-ARMS-NONCHALANTLY

• 5

  noticing that single-digit numbers can be separate lexical items or merged into other signs (numeral incorporation), such as those for ages, for example,

  AGE-YEARS(FIVE)

  , or adverbs of time such as

  WEEK-AGO(THREE)

• 6

  categorising noun signs in clauses such as common and proper nouns, for example,

  DOG, PARIS,

  fingerspelled nouns such as

  GIRL READ

  versus

  PRO3 READ

• 7

  recognising that there is no verb ‘to be’ in Auslan, for example,

  PRO1 COLD

  I am cold.

  PRO2 GO SHOP?

  Are you going shopping?

• 8

  practising the signing of examples of adjectives that describe nouns in different ways, such as how they look (

  BIG

  or

  RED

  ), feel (

  SOFT

  or

  HOT

  ), smell (

  SMELLY

  ) or sound (

  LOUD

  ) and using lexicalised signs such as colour and sound, or for size, shape, weight, texture

• 9 recognising that adjective signs can reinforce the signers’ messaging or description and are used for distinguishing between statements and those that are questions
• 10 using NMFs and SASSs to represent meaning, such as widening eyes and puffing cheeks for depicting growth, puffing cheeks and slumping shoulders for depicting heaviness, narrowing eyes and mouth for something thin
• 11 noticing that Auslan pronouns are different from English because they do not show gender, but they can show location and a specific number of referents, using NMFs

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