AC9L2AU6U03 Year 5 Languages

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.

compare some Auslan structures and features with those of English, using some familiar metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1

  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

• 2 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
• 3 recognising that Auslan signs have been influenced by international signed languages, in a similar way to English borrowing words from other languages
• 4 identifying and comparing features of particular types of Auslan and English texts, for example, comparing language that expresses emotion in a narrative text
• 5 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
• 6 comparing the use of gestures across signed and spoken languages and discussing similarities and differences

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