AC9L1AU6U01 – Year 5 Languages: Understanding systems of language

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

Elaborations

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  identifying and comparing where and how a signer has established a location in space, through the use of points, non-body-anchored signs or fingerspelled words, for example,

  BOAT

  being signed in the neutral space in front of the signer’s torso area, or signing

  DREAM

  above their head space

• • identifying, demonstrating and describing the various types of NMFs such as movements of the eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks, shoulders and body, for example, considering which NMFs are used to express something that is heavy, far away, light, urgent or distressing
• • producing signs using the correct HOLM and NMF in citation form
• • creating a transcription of Auslan and English to identify what HOLMs and NMFs are used for DSs through the use of entity, SASSs and/or handling
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  recognising that 2-handed signs can occur with a standard mouth gesture and that these are sometimes called multi-channel signs, for example,

  BA-BA

  and

  PAH

• • developing the strategic use of speed and pacing to build anticipation and captivate an audience, for example, when recounting an event or telling a story to the class
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  identifying signs that are arbitrary and have the same movement of the hands, for example,

  SISTER

  and

  BOY,

  and others that are derivative, such as

  SHOWER

  and

  FOOD

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: