AC9L1AU4U02 Year 3 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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 and use Auslan language conventions, grammatical structures and basic syntax, in familiar texts and contexts

Elaborations

• 1

  recognising that Auslan users’ use of signing space, movement, CAs, DSs and NMFs enrich many elements of the language, for example, integrating NMFs to show adjectival meanings such as

  READ CAREFUL,

  with the sign

  CAREFUL

  accompanied by appropriate NMF

• 2 demonstrating examples of types of DSs, including entity, handling and SASSs, and their use in context
• 3 noticing how signers visually reconstruct their own or another’s talk and/or actions using all elements of CA which includes eye gaze, NMFs and role shift, for example, identifying when the signer changes character or reacts in a particular way
• 4

  using verb and noun lexicalised signs to describe a person, animal or items, for example,

  FOOTBALL WHERE PT+f GYM

  The football is at the gym.

• 5

  contributing examples of signs that tell when, where or how a verb happens, such as

  WANT LUNCH NOW

  I’d like lunch now.

  <

  PRO1(PL) RUN FAR

  We have run far.

  PLEASE COME HERE

  Come here please.

  PRO2 QUICK FINISH

  You finished quickly.

• 6

  noticing the relationship between the location of referents and the direction of some indicating verbs, for example, role-playing

  CALL PRO1, CALL PRO2

• 7

  recognising and responding to verbs in signed text, for example, doing (

  WALK, WRITE

  ) and saying (

  TELL, CALL

  (

  YELL

  ),

  ANNOUNCE

  ) verbs in teacher instruction and narrative texts

• 8 distinguishing between and using yes/no questions and wh- questions, and noticing that each type of question has different NMFs

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