AC9L2AUF02 Foundation Languages

AC9L2AUF02 – Foundation Languages: null

Strand

Communicating meaning in target language

Substrand

Communicating meaning in target language

This Content Descriptor from Foundation 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

explore, with support, language features of Auslan, noticing similarities and differences between Auslan and English

Elaborations

• noticing that every language uses words or signs to make meaning
• noticing that their name can be written and fingerspelled
• comparing Auslan and English phrases and noticing similarities and differences
• comparing how to gain attention in a classroom situation, in Auslan and English, for example, by waving or tapping
• noticing that NMFs are important when communicating in both Auslan and English

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Foundation ASLANAUSSLLF10FY

Foundation Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of the Foundation year, students use play and imagination to interact and create Auslan texts, with support. They identify that Auslan and English are different. They recognise that there are languages and cultures as well as their own, and that aspects of language and culture contribute to their own and others’ cultural identity.