AC9L1AU4U02 – Year 3 Languages: Understanding systems of language
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.
Content Descriptor
Elaborations
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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
- • demonstrating examples of types of DSs, including entity, handling and SASSs, and their use in context
- • 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
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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.
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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.
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noticing the relationship between the location of referents and the direction of some indicating verbs, for example, role-playing
CALL PRO1, CALL PRO2
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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
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- • distinguishing between and using yes/no questions and wh- questions, and noticing that each type of question has different NMFs