AC9L2AU2U01 Year 1 Languages

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.

recognise that Auslan is a visual-gestural language, and imitate the parameters of signs such as handshape, orientation, location, movement (HOLM) and non-manual features (NMFs)

Elaborations

• 1 noticing the location of a sign on the body or in space
• 2 understanding that syllables in English are like handshapes, movements and locations in Auslan, in the sense that they are combined together to make signs
• 3

  working with information to create a class video, identifying and categorising a select range of signs according to handshape, for example,

  COCKATOO

  handshape:five and

  SOCCER

  handshape:fist

• 4 noticing the variation in ‘handedness’ between signers in relation to signs and fingerspelling, and developing use of ‘writing hand’ as dominant hand when signing
• 5 noticing that meaning can be expressed through fingerspelling, for example, fingerspelling individual words, using clear letter formation
• 6

  recognising movements of the hands in modelled signs, for example,

  GIRL

  or

  BOY

• 7

  recognising that some signs are iconic, linking to the appearance of a referent, for example,

  HOUSE, TREE, ELEPHANT,

  and that some are not iconic, such as

  SISTER, WHY, SIMPLE

• 8 practising signing which is clear, for example, not ‘mumbling’ by using a small space and not ‘yelling’ by using an overly large space
• 9 practising signing at a constant speed

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