AC9L2AU2C02 Year 1 Languages

AC9L2AU2C02 – Year 1 Languages: Interacting in Auslan

Strand

Communicating meaning in Auslan

Substrand

Interacting in Auslan

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 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

participate in a range of guided, play-based language activities, using formulaic expressions and visual cues

Elaborations

• participating in games that involve the use of repeated phrases, expressions, actions and NMFs, for example, 'I went to market, and I bought …', 'I have, you have?'
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following instructions that include simple DSs, to locate and move classroom objects or complete an action-based activity, such as an obstacle course, for example,
DESK DS:PLACE-IN PUT
Put it in the desk.
TREE DS:WALK AROUND
Walk around the tree.
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following classroom instructions that include simple DSs for completing activities, such as
DS:LINE-UP PLEASE
Line up, please.
LOOK-AT PRO1
Look at me.
PLEASE WITH TWO
Please find a partner.
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taking turns in games such as 'Go fish' or memory games, using appropriate signs and NMFs, for example,
POSS2 TURN
It’s your turn.
PRO2 PICK-UP
You pick up.
THREE HAVE PRO2?
Do you have a 3?
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swapping or ‘buying’ objects, using question signs and affirmative and negative answers, for example,
HOW-MANY WANT?
How many do you want?
THAT HOW-MUCH?
How much is that?
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interacting with a signing puppet or doll in an imaginary setting, for example, by signing simple questions such as
POSS2 NAME, WHAT?
What is your name?
PRO2 LIKE FS: DO WHAT?
What do you like to do?
• watching group performances of rehearsed role plays and joining in expressions of support such as the use of deaf applause

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 1 ASLANAUSSLLF10Y12

Year 1 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 2, students use Auslan to interact and share information related to the classroom and themselves. They use cues to respond to questions and instructions, and use simple formulaic language. They locate and convey key items of information in texts using non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They use familiar signs and modelled language, including some fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts. Students imitate the parameters of signs. They demonstrate understanding that Auslan has conventions and rules for signing. They give examples of similarities and differences between some features of Auslan and English. They understand that language is connected with culture and identity, and notice how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.