AC9L1AUF02 Foundation Languages

This Content Descriptor from Foundation 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.

explore, with support, language features of Auslan, making connections between Auslan and English

Elaborations

• 1

  making connections between words and images and the signs to make meaning, for example, point to the object labelled as 'milk' and sign

  MILK

• 2 noticing that names can be signed, written and fingerspelled
• 3 comparing how to gain attention or show approval in a classroom situation, in Auslan and English, for example, waving, tapping or deaf clapping in Auslan
• 4

  noticing how, when communicating in Auslan, NMFs are more important than in English, for example, playing a matching game with facial expressions and sentences such as

  PRO1 LIKE FLOWERS

Related Achievement Standards