AC9L1AU8EU01
Years 7 to 8
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AC9L1AU8EU01 | Years 7 to 8 Auslan: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor recognise and use modelled combinations of handshape, orientation, location, movement (HOLM) and non-manual features (NMFs) to form signs and phrases and demonstrate understanding of how these are represented in familiar contexts
First language learners · Years 7 to 10 sequence
The Years 7 to 10 Auslan sequence is shared by first and second language learners.
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 7 to 8 Auslan · First language learners · Years 7 to 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration showing how meaning can be expressed through either whole signs or fingerspelling, with NMFs
- • Elaboration recognising the variation in ‘handedness’ between signers in relation to both signs and fingerspelling: right handers using their right hand as their dominant (main) hand; left handers doing the opposite
- • Elaboration using NMFs to show emotional states such as a happy expression, or grammatical information, for example, a frown to mark a negative in LIKE and DISLIKE
- • Elaboration using signs with a change in handshape, for example, FIND or BEST , or a change in orientation, for example, CAN-NOT or HOW
- • Elaboration observing a sign's handshape and its orientation, for example, COCKATOO handshape:five, palm left, and SOCCER handshape:fist
- • Elaboration identifying signs that can represent a whole object or part of an object, for example, body versus legs
- • Elaboration noticing iconic signs that provide visual images of referents such as DRINK, ELEPHANT
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- • Elaboration noticing the 5 major locations of signs on the body (body anchored signs) or in space (non-body anchored), and identifying signs associated with each, such as SEE (head/face), SAY (mouth/chin), WHY (chest), PAST (non-body anchored, head signing space), HAVE, STOP and ONE (non-body anchored, chest signing space)
- • Elaboration noticing the path movement of a particular sign and identifying signs associated with the major types of primary and secondary path movements, for example, THROUGH (forwards) or FULL (down to up) – both primary movements; or WHEN (wiggle on cheek) or DINNER (tap on chin) – both secondary movements
- • Elaboration noticing that in a stretch of connected signing, a sign will often be produced differently from the way it is shown in a dictionary in terms of citation and non-citation form, for example, KNOW signed at the temple location, but in conversation this sign is often dropped into a lower signing space such as cheek, or even lower
- • Elaboration identifying which hand is dominant and which is non-dominant in 2-handed signs, and how such signs may move, for example, double-handed signs with same handshape move in the same way such as BOOK or DIFFERENT , while 2-handed signs have one stationary hand and only the dominant hand moves such as CULTURE or IMPORTANT
- • Elaboration noticing signs can have different levels of visual motivation, or iconicity, for example, those that are fully transparent ( SLEEP ), translucent ( MILK ) or arbitrary ( PEOPLE ) and that iconicity is often overestimated in sign languages
- • Elaboration noticing that a fixed 2-dimensional image of a sign may be produced differently in real-life Auslan
- • Elaboration swapping hand dominance and anchoring either the dominant or subordinate hand for a purpose
- • Elaboration demonstrating signing at a constant speed, with pauses to indicate the end of a phrase
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