Auslan: Second Language Learner 7–10 Sequence / Levels 7 and 8 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Recognise and restrict signing to the standard signing space, and understand that pronouns, depicting signs and verbs can be located meaningfully in that space to show participants in a process
Elaborations
describing the range of signing space in normal signed discourse
recognising that non-body-anchored nouns can be located in space and identifying instances of this
comparing and contrasting Auslan and English pronouns, in particular noticing that Auslan pronouns don’t show gender but they can show location and a specific number of referents, for example, WE2 (inclusive) and WE3 (inclusive) or WE2-NOT-INCLUDING-YOU (exclusive)
discussing the functions of different pointing signs, such as pronouns, determiners, locatives
noticing that enacting a role or modifying the beginning and end locations of some verbs can show the referents involved, for example:
PRO1 ASK PRO3 versus PRO1 ASK-her
PRO3 ASK-me CA:I-was-shocked
identifying what sorts of things can be represented in a DS by a particular handshape, for example a distant person, pole or tree can be represented by a point handshape, and a cylinder can be traced by a C handshape
identifying examples of DSs in an Auslan text, and 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
