AC9L1AU4U03 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 familiar Auslan structures and features and compare with those of English, in known contexts

Elaborations

• 1

  comparing word order in Auslan phrases with written English, for example,

  FORWARD WEEK(TWO) PRO1 HOLIDAY

  I am going on holiday in 2 weeks.

• 2

  recognising some signs are borrowed from other sign languages around the world, such as ASL and BSL, for example, the kiss fist gesture is a form of ASL expression meaning

  TRULY LOVE IT

• 3 noticing that differing purposes in the creation of Auslan texts result in differing types and amounts of signing, for example, the use of more CAs in narratives
• 4

  recognising there are lexicalised signs for common English words and abbreviations such as the days of the week, name of the month or names of states, for example,

  FS:VIC, NSW, SA

• 5

  recognising the features of using different NMFs, eye gazing and mannerism to gain, hold and finish explaining the context, and considering words in English which perform similar functions such as Yes, Really?, Wow and That’s it.

• 6 comparing Deaf and hearing jokes, noticing that Auslan jokes have an emphasis on visual elements and Deaf ways, for example, the timber joke
• 7 keeping an Auslan/English bilingual class record of lexicalised Auslan signs and informal signs that they might use at home and at school

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