Auslan: Second Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 5 and 6 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Understand that signs can include different information, including a gestural overlay, identify types of depicting signs and how signers establish spatial locations and show constructed action
Elaborations
recognising that Auslan has fully-lexical signs that are in the dictionary and have a standard handshape, movement and location, and partly-lexical signs that cannot be listed in a dictionary in all forms as they change their form each time they are signed, such as DSs
noticing that fully- and partly-lexical signs can include grammatical information not included in a ‘citation’ form, for example, the sign TELL-me is not listed separately to TELL (towards neutral space) and GO-TO includes GO-TO-often
identifying where a signer has established a location in space (for example, through points, non-body-anchored signs, fingerspelled words or verb movement changes)
recognising that signers must make explicit which referent is associated with a location
identifying examples of each type of DS in an Auslan text: entity DSs, handling DSs and SASS DSs
learning that the function of CA is to represent the words, thoughts or actions of a protagonist in a text, either themselves or another
knowing that in CA a signer can shift into the role of another, or themselves at a different time, through eye gaze change, body shift, head orientation change, and matching facial expressions
