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AC9L2AU4U03: Year 3 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L2AU4U03 Year 3 Languages

AC9L2AU4U03 – 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 familiar Auslan structures and features and compare with those of English, in known contexts

Elaborations

  • • collecting and noting a list of gestures, commonly used by hearing people when speaking English, that have similar meaning when used in Auslan, for example, head nodding, shoulder shrugging, pointing to watch
  • • recognising that variation occurs in spoken languages, noticing some different words for the same thing in English and identifying similarities in Auslan, for example, cossie/cozzie, togs or bathers
  • • comparing differences in forms of address in signed and spoken languages, for example, not using a person’s name when signing directly to them, unlike the use of names in English and some other languages
  • • observing that there is variation in signs and signers across Australia due to differences in location, age or schooling, such as northern/southern dialects in Auslan, and comparing with accents in English
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    comparing word order in Auslan phrases with written English, for example,

    FORWARD WEEK(TWO) PRO1 HOLIDAY

    I am going on holiday in 2 weeks.

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    recognising there are lexicalised signs for common English words and abbreviations such as the days of the week, names of the months, and names of states, for example,

    FS:VIC, NSW, SA

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.