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AC9L2AU6U02: Year 5 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L2AU6U02 Year 5 Languages

AC9L2AU6U02 – Year 5 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
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.

Content Descriptor

use knowledge of modelled grammatical structures and formulaic expressions to compose and respond to texts, using appropriate textual conventions

Elaborations

  • • identifying and using examples of each type of DS in an Auslan text; entity DS, handling DS and size and shape specifiers (SASS) DSs
  • • experimenting with the use of CAs to represent words, thoughts or actions of a referent, through eye-gaze change, body shift, head orientation change, and matching facial expressions
  • • using fully-lexical signs that are in the dictionary and have a standard handshape, movement and location to compose signed texts
  • • understanding that some partly-lexical signs cannot be listed in a dictionary in all forms as they change their form each time they are signed, such as DSs
  • •

    understanding that sometimes Auslan signers have information about how a verb happens through NMFs not separate signs, for example,

    WRITE

    -carelessly, and this is known as manner

  • •

    using adverbs to modify adjectives using NMFs, for example,

    REALLY

    or

    VERY

    , whereby changes in mouth patterns and movement of signs can intensify adjectives, for example,

    RED NMF:EYES-WIDENING , PLEASE NMF:SMILING-HEAD-NODDING, TALL NMF:EYES-WIDENING

  • •

    expressing timing of verbs such as signing

    WATCH

    versus

    WATCH DS:SLOW-REPEAT

    , or using lexical signs

    WATCH AGAIN

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  • • understanding that parts of a sentence can be signed simultaneously in Auslan, making it hard to establish word order

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASLANAUSSLLF10Y56
Year 5 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 6, students initiate and use strategies to maintain interactions in Auslan that are related to their immediate environment. They collaborate in activities that involve the language of planning and problem-solving to share information, preferences and ideas. They use strategies to locate and interpret information and ideas in texts, and demonstrate understanding by responding in Auslan or English, adjusting their response to context, purpose and audience. They create texts, selecting and using a variety of signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing spaces. They sequence information and ideas, and use conventions appropriate to text type. Students apply rules of signs, pace and signing space to develop fluency. They use modelled structures when creating and responding in Auslan. They compare language structures and features in Auslan and English, using some metalanguage. They show understanding of how some language reflects cultural practices and consider how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.