Auslan: Second Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 9 and 10 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Explore the relationship between particular text types, audience, purpose and context and analyse language features used by signers to create cohesion and achieve the purpose of the text
Elaborations
analysing specific types of text by identifying characteristic language features
analysing a videoed class debate to see how language is used to justify opinions and persuade others
conducting an in-depth analysis of a selected sign text, taking into account audience, purpose and topic to explain language choices made by the signer
noticing how grammatical choices can shade meaning, determine perspective and establish relationship, for example the effect of choosing to be more or less English-like
expanding understanding of textual conventions, for example by explaining why signers choose alternatives to actor-verb-undergoer in a real text to topicalise an important point
noticing how signers can compare or contrast ideas by locating things in the same or opposing sides of signing space
analysing the ways in which Auslan uses NMFs to link clauses and achieve textual cohesion
