AC9L2AU4U02 Year 3 Languages

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.

recognise Auslan language conventions, grammatical structures and basic syntax in familiar texts and contexts

Elaborations

• 1

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

  HOUSE, FISH

• 2 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
• 3 discussing the functions of different pointing signs, such as pronouns, determiners and locatives
• 4

  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)

• 5 noticing the relationship between the location of referents in real space and the direction of some indicating verbs in a text
• 6

  knowing that adverbs modify the meaning of verbs, such as

  READ CAREFULLY

• 7

  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

• 8

  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.

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

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