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Content description VCASFU174

Auslan: Second Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 5 and 6 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Identify and describe elements of sign production, including handshape and its orientation, movement, location and non-manual features, and explore the processes of annotating Auslan videos or reading and transcribing glossed texts
Elaborations
  1. noticing that in a stretch of connected signing a sign will often be produced differently to the way it is shown in a dictionary
  2. identifying some NMFs in a signed text
  3. recognising that some signs can occur with a standard mouth gesture and that these are sometimes called multi-channel signs
  4. thinking of body-anchored signs, such as head or why, and signs that are not body anchored, such as HAVE or STOP, and recognising that non-body anchored signs can be located in space around the signer
  5. identifying some iconic signs and considering how they are iconic
  6. exploring with support software such as ELAN to annotate signed texts with some grammatical marking such as NMFs
  7. ‘reading’ and transcribing glossed texts, including indicating understanding that there are markings to show NMFs and spatial locations
Code
VCASFU174
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