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AC9L2AU4U02: Year 3 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L2AU4U02 Year 3 Languages

AC9L2AU4U02 – Year 3 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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 Auslan language conventions, grammatical structures and basic syntax in familiar texts and contexts

Elaborations

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    recognising that non-body-anchored nouns can be located in space and identifying instances of this, for example,

    HOUSE, FISH

  • • identifying how people or objects around the school or environment can be represented by DSs, for example, talking about someone who is not there, describing a part of the playground
  • • discussing the functions of different pointing signs, such as pronouns, determiners and locatives
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    noticing that single-digit numbers can be separate lexical items or merged into other signs (numeral incorporation), such as those for ages, for example,

    AGE-YEARS(FIVE)

    , or adverbs of time, for example,

    WEEK-AGO(THREE)

  • • noticing the relationship between the location of referents in real space and the direction of some indicating verbs in a text
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    knowing that adverbs modify the meaning of verbs, such as

    READ CAREFULLY

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    understanding that signing involves a combination of signs, CAs and DSs to convey detailed information, for example, The man walked slowly can be expressed as

    MAN WALK SLOW

    or

    PT+f DS:MAN-WALKS-SLOWLY

    or

    CA:MAN-SWINGS-ARMS-NONCHALANTLY

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    using examples of signs that tell when, where or how a verb happens, such as

    FORWARD WEEK(TWO) PRO1 HOLIDAY

    I am going on holiday in 2 weeks.

    WANT LUNCH NOW PLEASE

    I want lunch now please.

    PRO1(PL) RUN FAR

    We have run far.

    COME-HERE PLEASE

    Come here please.

    PRO2 QUICK FINISH

    You finished quickly.

  • • recognising that the element of a clause on which a signer wants to focus may be signed first using particular NMFs

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 3 ASLANAUSSLLF10Y34
Year 3 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 4, students use Auslan to initiate structured interactions to share information related to the classroom and their personal worlds. They use familiar language to participate in activities that involve planning. They locate and respond to key items of information in texts, using strategies to help interpret and convey meaning in familiar contexts. They use modelled language and basic syntax, including familiar fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts. Students use modelled combinations of signs and demonstrate understanding that Auslan has language conventions and rules to create and make meaning. They identify patterns in Auslan and make comparisons between Auslan and English. They understand that Auslan is connected with culture and identity, and identify how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.