Auslan: Second Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 7 and 8 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Identify different types of non-manual features and characteristics of signs, including iconicity, and explore the use of software to transcribe and annotate signed texts
Elaborations
identifying, demonstrating and describing the various types of NMFs: movements of the eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks, shoulders and body, and describing their function
understanding that signs can be iconic in a number of ways, such as representing a whole object or part of an object
identifying signs with different levels of iconicity, for example, those that are fully transparent, translucent or arbitrary
recognising that signed languages involve more iconicity because they are visual not auditory, with most referents having visual features
identify and classify examples of spatial modifications of nouns and verbs in a video text using video annotation software, for example, ELAN
‘reading’ and transcribing glossed texts, including interpreting the markings that show how a sign is modified in space, NMFs, DSs and examples of CA
