Content description VCASFU193

Auslan: Second Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 7 and 8 / Understanding / Systems of language

Content description

Develop knowledge of additional elements of the Auslan grammatical system, analysing indicating verbs, depicting signs and constructed action

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 use locations for present referents, non-present referents, or abstract referents that do not exist in space
recognising that nouns can be pluralised by locating them repeatedly regardless of their original location
distinguishing between directional and locational indicating verbs
recognising that handshape and movement represent different things in each type of DS, for example:
- entity DSs: the handshape is an object or person, and the movement is the movement or location of that object or person
- handling DSs: the handshape represents a person’s hands touching or moving another object, and the movement shows how the hands move
- SASS DSs: the handshape and movement outline the shape or size of something
observing instances of CA in a text and discussing how it was marked

Code

VCASFU193

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