Auslan: Second Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Foundation to Level 2 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Recognise and restrict signing to the standard signing space, and understand that pronouns, depicting signs and verbs can be located meaningfully in that space
Elaborations
describing the range of signing space in normal signed discourse
comparing and contrasting Auslan and English pronouns
noticing that the beginning and end locations of some verbs can be modified to show the referents involved, for example:
PRO1 ASK PRO3 versus PRO1 ASK-her
identifying what sorts of things can be represented in a DS by handshape, for example, point can mean a person or tree or pole
