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AC9L2AU6U03: Year 5 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L2AU6U03 Year 5 Languages

AC9L2AU6U03 – 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

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

Elaborations

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    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

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

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.