Auslan: Second Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 5 and 6 / Communicating / Socialising
Content description
Communicate appropriately while involved in shared learning activities by asking and responding to questions, managing interactions, indicating understanding and monitoring learning
Elaborations
responding to signed class and school announcements such as assembly procedures
showing agreement or disagreement or asking for clarification, for example:
PRO1 AGREE
I agree.
PRO1 AGREE-NOT
I don’t agree …
THAT RIGHT THAT?
Is that right?
…RIGHT PRO1?
… am I right?
using discourse markers in conversation to indicate understanding, attention or consideration, for example:
SURPRISE
oooh (with appropriate intonation)
INCREDIBLE
No way!
WOW
Wow!
UM
um
respecting protocols for interrupting conversations, for example by walking between signers, waiting for eye contact and pauses in signing and using language such as EXCUSE or SORRY INTERRUPT
monitoring their own and each other’s learning, for example by making comments such as:
SURPRISE KNOW-NOT PRO1
I didn’t know that …
THANKYOU PRO2 EXPLAIN CLEAR
Thank you – that was really clear.
following appropriate protocols when interacting with interpreters, for example not standing between the interpreter and the deaf person
using non-auditory ways of signalling enjoyment, support or encouragement in large group or audience activities, for example, by foot stomping at a deaf basketball game
