Auslan: First Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 7 and 8 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Distinguish between character and observer space, categorise different verb types and identify constructed action in a text
Elaborations
noticing that meaning is created in Auslan from fully-lexical signs, partly-lexical signs and non-lexical CA and gesture
recognising that signers can set up referents in the signing space as if they are part of that space (character space, for example, using a bC handshape (use of non-dominant hand) to indicate putting a glass on a table) or as if they are outside it (observer, for example, using 5claw in two locations to represent two houses)
recognising that in character space, signers can use locations for present referents, non-present referents, or abstract referents that do not exist in space
recognising that signers can give information about how a verb happens over time by changing the movement, for example, signing WATCH versus WATCH -for-a-long-time, or with lexical signs such as WATCH AGAIN++
recognising that nouns can be pluralised by locating them repeatedly regardless of their original location
categorising the type of depicting sign being used by a signer
distinguishing between directional and locational indicating verbs
observing examples of CA in an Auslan text and discussing how it was marked
