AC9L1AU8U01 Years 7 to 8 Languages

Content descriptor apply knowledge of conventions of sign production to enhance fluency, and respond to and create texts in familiar and unfamiliar contexts

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• • Elaboration identifying and applying movements of signs, such as local and path movements, for example, local movement – HAVE, path movement – DAY (sideways)
• • Elaboration applying the various types and functions of NMFs, such as movements of the eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks, shoulders and body
• • Elaboration using DSs that represent a whole object or part of an object such as the body or the legs
• • Elaboration modifying dominant and non-dominant hands for effect or using one hand only to convey the same meaning as the original 2-hand sign
• • Elaboration understanding and applying the need to modify pace for emphasis, in familiar and unfamiliar texts, such as when recounting an exciting event
• • Elaboration understanding that the elements of a sign can be arbitrary, such as the handshape or movement of the sign WHY, or that the handshape and movement may be meaningful, such as in the sign GIVE
• • Elaboration applying the fluid patterns of fingerspelling rather than speed, and the use of exaggerated fingerspelling for emphasis, for example, when clarifying a name

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• • Elaboration recognising that Auslan has fully-lexical signs that may be found in the dictionary, and standard HOLM and partly-lexical signs that cannot be listed in a dictionary in all forms, for example, when gesture changes the form each time they are signed
• • Elaboration comparing the production of a signed discourse with and without mouth morphemes