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AC9L1AU4U02: Year 3 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L1AU4U02 Year 3 Languages

AC9L1AU4U02 – Year 3 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
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

recognise and use Auslan language conventions, grammatical structures and basic syntax, in familiar texts and contexts

Elaborations

  • 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
  • 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.

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

    WANT LUNCH NOW

    I’d like lunch now.

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    PRO1(PL) RUN FAR

    We have run far.

    PLEASE COME HERE

    Come here please.

    PRO2 QUICK FINISH

    You finished quickly.

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

    CALL PRO1, CALL PRO2

  • 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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 3 ASLANAUSFLLF10Y34
Year 3 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 4, students use Auslan to initiate structured interactions to share information related to the classroom and their personal worlds. They participate in activities that involve planning and transacting. They locate and respond to key items of information in texts, using strategies to help interpret and convey meaning in familiar contexts. They use familiar and formulaic language and basic syntax, including fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts appropriate to context.Students use combinations of signs and demonstrate understanding that Auslan has language conventions and rules to create and make meaning. They identify patterns in Auslan and make comparisons between Auslan and English. They understand that Auslan is connected with cultural identity, and identify how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.