AC9L2AU2U02
Years 1 to 2
Languages
AC9L2AU2U02 | Years 1 to 2 Auslan: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor recognise that signs and features of language are used to construct meaning in Auslan
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 recognising that there is range of signing space in signed interactions
- • Elaboration identifying and indicating how people or things in the classroom can be represented by DSs, for example, point can mean a person, a ruler can be long or short
- • Elaboration noticing that there can be one or more referents in an Auslan text
- • Elaboration showing understanding that proper nouns can have a sign name, a lexical sign or can be fingerspelled
- • Elaboration identifying verb signs SIT, EAT, FEEL, HAVE and recognising that they are central to a clause
- • Elaboration noticing there is no equivalent for the verb ‘to be’ in Auslan, for example, PRO1 COLD I am cold.
- • Elaboration practising the signing of examples of adjectives that describe nouns in different ways, such as how they look ( BIG or RED ), feel ( SOFT or HOT ), smell ( SMELLY ) or sound ( LOUD )
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- • Elaboration understanding how to create complete sentences through movement within signs, for example, FINISHED CALL PRO3 (sign moves from the signer to referent) I called him. PRO2 HELP PRO3(PL) (the sign HELP moves from the referent location to the signer’s body, expressing that the help was given to them) You helped them.
- • Elaboration recognising simple time markers without numeral incorporation, for example, TODAY, TOMORROW, NEXT-WEEK
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