AC9L2AU4U01
Years 3 to 4
Languages
AC9L2AU4U01 | Years 3 to 4 Auslan: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor recognise and use modelled combinations of signs such as handshape, orientation, location, movement (HOLM) and non-manual features (NMFs) to form signed words and phrases
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 3 to 4 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 5 major locations of signs on the body or in space, and identifying signs associated with each, such as SEE (head/face), SAY (mouth/chin), WHY (chest), TALK (hand) and ONE (signing space)
- • Elaboration recognising that handshapes must be performed in a particular position and that this is called orientation, for example, ON or TRUE
- • Elaboration identifying and demonstrating signs with a change in handshape, such as KNOW or THINK
- • Elaboration understanding that NMFs can also be an element of a sign and can show emotional states such as a happy expression or grammatical information, for example, a frown to mark a negative
- • Elaboration using chosen hands consistently, as dominant and subordinate hands
- • Elaboration practising signing at a constant speed with pauses to indicate the end of a phrase
- • Elaboration using fingerspelling as a bridge to English such as familiar lexicalised fingerspelled signs, for example, FS:MON Monday
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- • Elaboration recognising that changing the movement changes the meaning, for example, TEACHER
- • Elaboration comparing iconic signs to the visual images and/or movements of referents, such as DRINK, MONKEY
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