AC9L2AU8U02
Years 7 to 8
Languages
AC9L2AU8U02 | Years 7 to 8 Auslan: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor apply understanding of grammatical structures and features to compose and respond to texts
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 using locations for present referents, non-present referents, or abstract referents that do not exist in space
- • Elaboration creating a digital resource demonstrating that handshape and movement represent different things in each type of DS, for example, entity DS, handling DS and SASS DSs
- • Elaboration understanding when signers are using composite utterances, that is, those that have elements of CAs, DSs, points and fully-lexical signs in the same utterance
- • Elaboration using different functions of NMFs such as those used for questions (yes/no and wh- forms), statements, topicalisation, negation or conditional forms
- • Elaboration understanding instances of CA in a signed text on video, and recording the time marker for when it occurs, and providing suggestions for why it has been used at that point
- • Elaboration recognising that nouns can be pluralised by locating them repeatedly regardless of their original location
- • Elaboration practising the use of citation form of plain verbs and indicating verbs change when depicting more than 2 people
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- • Elaboration identifying when and how some verbs and nouns use the same sign but change the movement in a regular way making noun-verb pairs, such as SCISSORS versus CUT-WITH-SCISSORS , intensifying adjectives through the use of NMFs such as HOT , signing with great emphasis, and depicting wide-eyed expression for EXTREMELY HOT , or signing TOUGH with great exertion to show VERY TOUGH
- • Elaboration understanding that signers may include linguistic and gestural elements in a clause, that is, signers can tell, show or do both simultaneously, using a combination of lexicalised signs and CAs, DSs, NMFs and space
- • Elaboration recounting events using conjunctions with separate signs as discourse markers such as THEN, ANYWAY, FS:SO, PLUS, NEXT , or by NMFs, for example, by pausing between clauses or clasping hands
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