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AC9L1AU2U03: Year 1 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L1AU2U03 Year 1 Languages

AC9L1AU2U03 – Year 1 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

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.

Content Descriptor

notice that Auslan has features that may be similar to or different from English

Elaborations

  • • noticing that Auslan has more flexibility in word order than English
  • • comparing differences in forms of address in signed and spoken languages, for example, not using a person’s name when signing directly to them, unlike the use of names in English and some other languages
  • • participating in shared reading of children’s books containing Auslan images and English text, asking and answering questions about unfamiliar words and phrases, and noticing the comparative number of signs and words used in the book
  • • recognising that there are many sign languages around the world and that sign languages in English-speaking countries, such as Auslan, American Sign Language (ASL) and British Sign Language (BSL), are different
  • • creating a chart or poster to compare signs used in ASL, BSL and/or New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL) that are similar to Auslan
  • • recognising that different texts serve different purposes in both Auslan and English, for example, comparing the Auslan and English texts in a procedure such as a recipe or in a narrative such as a story
  • •

    recognising lexicalised signs when comparing Auslan expressions used in everyday interactions such as greetings with equivalent English expressions, for example,

    HOW-ARE-YOU?

    compared with How are you?, and combining with NMFs to convey meaning, mood and tone

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  • • comparing sentences in Auslan and English, for example, comparing how features of CAs, such as body movement, mannerism, role shift, eye gaze and NMFs, may or may not be present in an English translation
  • • creating a poster, chart or diagram of the origins of Auslan from BSL and Irish Sign Language (ISL) used by early settlers and convicts in the early 1790s

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 1 ASLANAUSFLLF10Y12
Year 1 Languages Achievement Standard
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.