AC9L2AU6U01 – Year 5 Languages: Understanding systems of language

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

Elaborations

• •

  identifying body-anchored signs, such as

  HEAD

  or

  HAND

  , and signs that are not body-anchored, such as

  HAVE

  or

  STOP

  , and understanding that non-body-anchored signs can be located in space around the signer

• • identifying where a signer has established a location in space, for example, through pointing, non-body-anchored signs, verb movement changes, or use of referents
• • noticing that in a suite of connected signing, a sign will often be produced differently to the way it is shown in a dictionary
• • recognising the different handshapes used by each hand in 2-handed signs
• • recognising the use of dominant and non-dominant hands in other Auslan users
• • identifying some NMFs in a signed text such as movements of the eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks, shoulders and body
• • signing at a constant speed with pauses for emphasis, for example, when recounting an event or giving instructions

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: