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

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 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
• 3 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
• 4 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
• 5

  comparing word order in Auslan phrases with written English, for example,

  FORWARD WEEK(TWO) PRO1 HOLIDAY

  I am going on holiday in 2 weeks.

• 6

  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

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