Auslan: First Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 5 and 6 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Describe the elements of sign production, including non-manual features, and explore the processes of annotating Auslan with multimedia software and/or glossing or transcribing signed texts on paper
Elaborations
describing a sign’s form in terms of handshape, hand arrangement, orientation, movement and location
identifying some iconic signs and considering how they are iconic
identifying, demonstrating and describing the various types of NMFs: movements of the eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks, shoulders and body
noticing that, in a stretch of connected signing, a sign will often be produced differently to the way it is shown in a dictionary
understanding that many features of signed languages occur simultaneously, compared to spoken language features which typically occur sequentially
recognising that some signs can occur with a standard mouth gesture and that these are sometimes called multi-channel signs
identifying and classifying examples of DSs and CA in a video text using video annotation software, for example, ELAN
‘reading’ a glossed text, including interpreting the markings that show how a sign is modified in space, NMFs, DSs and examples of CA
glossing a text with support, identifying what signs are used, any NMFs, and using a system of recording handshapes when describing DSs
