AC9L2AU8U01
Years 7 to 8
Languages
AC9L2AU8U01 | Years 7 to 8 Auslan: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor apply knowledge of conventions of sign production to enhance fluency, and respond to and create texts in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts
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 7 to 8 Auslan · Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration understanding that signs can be iconic such as representing a whole or part object and that there are degrees of iconicity, including fully transparent, translucent, and those that are not iconic, and are considered opaque or arbitrary
- • Elaboration understanding that different handshape and movement rules apply in the production of double-handed signs such as BOOK, LANGUAGE and how these signs move compared with 2-handed signs such as THEATRE, CULTURE
- • Elaboration demonstrating the various types of NMFs, including movements of the eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks, shoulders and body, and describing their function
- • Elaboration applying the ability to swap hand dominance and anchor either the dominant or subordinate hand for a purpose
- • Elaboration modifying pace for emphasis in familiar contexts such as when recounting an event
- • Elaboration applying consistent patterning and emphasis used in both lexicalised and non-lexicalised fingerspelling
- • Elaboration applying minimal pairs from a series of teacher-provided examples, for example, the signs for WORK and TALK are identical in orientation, movement and location but different handshape whereas the signs for BEAUTIFUL and WELL differ in location
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