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AC9L2AU2U03: Year 1 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L2AU2U03 Year 1 Languages

AC9L2AU2U03 – 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

notice that Auslan has features that may be similar to or different from English

Elaborations

  • • recognising that every language uses words or signs to make meaning, for example, creating a poster showing similarities and differences between Auslan and English for welcoming, greeting and introducing
  • • identifying aspects of Auslan and English which are similar or different, for example, NMFs or fingerspelling and recording these in a T-chart
  • • recognising that Auslan is a different sign language from that in other countries, and this is similar to having different spoken languages in other countries
  • • comparing Auslan and English pronouns
  • • recognising that texts are created to achieve different purposes, for example, a signed story or a signed instruction noticing that Auslan has more flexibility of word order than English

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.