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AC9L2AU10EU02: Year 9 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L2AU10EU02 Year 9 Languages

AC9L2AU10EU02 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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

select and use structures and features of the Auslan grammatical system to enhance meaning and create signed, visual and multimodal texts

Elaborations

  • • showing where and how a signer uses space to establish a location, for example, through the use of points, non-body-anchored signs or fingerspelled words
  • • recognising and practising using locations for present referents, non-present referents, or abstract referents that do not exist in space
  • • recognising that fully-lexical signs may be found in the dictionary and have a standard HOLM, and partly-lexical signs are not listed in a dictionary in all forms
  • •

    intensifying adjectives through the use of NMFs such as

    HOT

    , signing with great emphasis, and depicting a wide-eyed expression for

    EXTREMELY HOT

    , or signing

    TOUGH

    with great exertion to show

    VERY TOUGH

  • •

    distinguishing between the citation form of a sign and the overlaid adverbial NMF, for example,

    MAN SPRINT

    (base form),

    MAN SPRINT NMF:INTENSITY

    (manner added)

  • • showing that in CAs, a signer can shift into the role of another, or themselves at a different time, through eye-gaze change, body shift, head orientation change, and matching facial expressions
  • • viewing a signed text and documenting time codes for entity, handling and SASS DSs
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    changing the movement to express how a verb happens over time, for example, signing

    WATCH

    versus

    WATCH DS:SLOW-REPEAT

    watch again and again

  • •

    using structures to show a sequence of time, for example,

    WORK ALL DAY, FUTURE GENERATION

  • •

    applying knowledge of conjunctions such as

    PLUS, IF

    or

    BUT

    to join clauses and create cohesion

  • • adding adjectives, adverbs, CAs, DSs and lexical signs, and moving between ‘showing’ and ‘telling’ information to elaborate and extend clauses

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANAUSSLL7_10Y910
Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 10, students initiate and sustain interactions in Auslan to exchange and compare experiences and ideas about their own and others’ personal worlds. They communicate using non-verbal, signed and visual language to collaborate, plan and reflect on activities and events. They interpret and analyse information and ideas in texts and demonstrate understanding of different perspectives. They synthesise information and respond in Auslan or English, adjusting language to convey meaning and to suit context, purpose and audience. They use structures and features of Auslan, including fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts. Students apply features and conventions of signing to enhance communication. They select and apply knowledge of language structures and features to interact, make meaning and create texts. They support discussion of structures and features of texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their use of Auslan and their own cultural identity to discuss how these influence their ideas and ways of communicating.