AC9L2AU6U02 Years 5 to 6 Languages

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

Elaborations

• • Elaboration identifying and using examples of each type of DS in an Auslan text; entity DS, handling DS and size and shape specifiers (SASS) DSs
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration using fully-lexical signs that are in the dictionary and have a standard handshape, movement and location to compose signed texts
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration expressing timing of verbs such as signing WATCH versus WATCH DS:SLOW-REPEAT , or using lexical signs WATCH AGAIN

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