AC9L2AU2U01
Years 1 to 2
Languages
AC9L2AU2U01 | Years 1 to 2 Auslan: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
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)
Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 1 to 2 Auslan · Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration noticing the location of a sign on the body or in space
- • Elaboration understanding that syllables in English are like handshapes, movements and locations in Auslan, in the sense that they are combined together to make signs
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration noticing the variation in ‘handedness’ between signers in relation to signs and fingerspelling, and developing use of ‘writing hand’ as dominant hand when signing
- • Elaboration noticing that meaning can be expressed through fingerspelling, for example, fingerspelling individual words, using clear letter formation
- • Elaboration recognising movements of the hands in modelled signs, for example, GIRL or BOY
- • Elaboration 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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- • Elaboration practising signing which is clear, for example, not ‘mumbling’ by using a small space and not ‘yelling’ by using an overly large space
- • Elaboration practising signing at a constant speed
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