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AC9L2AU2U01: Year 1 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L2AU2U01 Year 1 Languages

AC9L2AU2U01 – Year 1 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

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

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

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

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

    GIRL

    or

    BOY

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    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

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

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.