AC9L1AU6U03
Years 5 to 6
Languages
AC9L1AU6U03 | Years 5 to 6 Auslan: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor compare Auslan structures and features with those of English, using some familiar metalanguage
First language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 5 to 6 Auslan · First language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration keeping a class poster to record the different ways that English words are borrowed in Auslan, for example, the use of fully fingerspelled words such as FS:NOUN , the fingerspelling of the first letter of the corresponding English words, such as F for Friday, or abbreviations of English words, such as state names FS:SA, FS:TAS
- • Elaboration building metalanguage to comment on grammar and vocabulary, for example, comparing adverbs used to express emotions in Auslan, such as raising an eyebrow to show questioning or lowering the eyebrows to show surprise, with equivalent English terms
- • Elaboration recording and using metalanguage to share similarities and differences in structure and language features in Auslan and English texts, for example, a recount or a narrative in both languages
- • Elaboration creating class lists of fingerspelled words which have become lexicalised, such as HOW, CHOC, IF, BUT and ABOUT , and looking at how this process has changed the form of words over time, for example, MOTHER = MX2 FATHER = FX2 PARENTS = M-F FRIDAY = F TOILET = TX2
- • Elaboration using different NMFs, eye gazing and mannerism to distinguish between minimal pairs in Auslan, and comparing with minimal pairs in English, for example, in Auslan, BATH and EXCITED have a handshape difference to change the meaning of each sign compared with, in English, the one-letter difference in the minimal pairs pin and pun
- • Elaboration observing Auslan signers, recording and describing examples of their use of space and features, such as topographic space, diagrammatic space and viewer space
- • Elaboration researching and presenting a report or poster on the origins of Auslan and its influence, and including possible influences today, for example, expressions related to social media or expressions that have come from alternative versions of sign language such as ASL and BSL
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