AC9L2AU6U03
Years 5 to 6
Languages
AC9L2AU6U03 | Years 5 to 6 Auslan: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor compare some Auslan structures and features with those of English, using some familiar metalanguage
Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 5 to 6 Auslan · Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration keeping a class poster to record different ways that English words are borrowed in Auslan, for example, the use of fully fingerspelled words, such as FS:NOUN , the fingerspelling of the first letter of corresponding English words, for example, FS:F for father, or abbreviations of English words, for example, state names such as FS:SA, TAS
- • Elaboration building metalanguage to comment on grammar and vocabulary, for example, comparing adverbs used to express emotions in Auslan such as raising an eyebrow to show questioning or lowering the eyebrows to show surprise with equivalent English terms
- • Elaboration recognising that Auslan signs have been influenced by international signed languages, in a similar way to English borrowing words from other languages
- • Elaboration identifying and comparing features of particular types of Auslan and English texts, for example, comparing language that expresses emotion in a narrative text
- • Elaboration analysing samples of types of text noticing choices signers have made in the production of their text, for example, the amount of CAs they use
- • Elaboration comparing the use of gestures across signed and spoken languages and discussing similarities and differences
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