AC9L1AUF02 Foundation Languages

AC9L1AUF02 – Foundation Languages: null

Strand

Communicating meaning in target language

Substrand

Communicating meaning in target language

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.

Content Descriptor

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

Elaborations

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

MILK
• noticing that names can be signed, written and fingerspelled
• 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
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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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Foundation ASLANAUSFLLF10FY

Foundation Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of the Foundation year, students use play and imagination to interact and create Auslan texts, with support. They identify that Auslan and English are different. They recognise that there are languages and cultures as well as their own, and that aspects of language and culture contribute to their own and others’ cultural identity.