AC9L2AU2U02 Year 1 Languages

AC9L2AU2U02 – 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 signs and features of language are used to construct meaning in Auslan

Elaborations

• recognising that there is range of signing space in signed interactions
• 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
• noticing that there can be one or more referents in an Auslan text
• showing understanding that proper nouns can have a sign name, a lexical sign or can be fingerspelled
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identifying verb signs
SIT, EAT, FEEL, HAVE
and recognising that they are central to a clause
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noticing there is no equivalent for the verb ‘to be’ in Auslan, for example,
PRO1 COLD
I am cold.
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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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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.
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recognising simple time markers without numeral incorporation, for example,
TODAY, TOMORROW, NEXT-WEEK

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.