AC9L2AU10EU02 Year 9 Languages

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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 recognising and practising using locations for present referents, non-present referents, or abstract referents that do not exist in space
• 3 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
• 4

  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

• 5

  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)

• 6 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
• 7 viewing a signed text and documenting time codes for entity, handling and SASS DSs
• 8

  changing the movement to express how a verb happens over time, for example, signing

  WATCH

  versus

  WATCH DS:SLOW-REPEAT

  watch again and again

• 9

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

  WORK ALL DAY, FUTURE GENERATION

• 10

  applying knowledge of conjunctions such as

  PLUS, IF

  or

  BUT

  to join clauses and create cohesion

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

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