Auslan: Second Language Learner 7–10 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 a videoed class debate to see how language is used to justify opinions and to 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
expanding understanding of textual conventions, for example by explaining why signers choose alternatives to actor-verb-undergoer in a real text to topicalise the important point
noticing how signers can compare or contrast ideas by locating things in the same or opposing sides of signing space
noticing how signers construct cohesive and coherent texts through the use of text connectives such as lexical signs THEN or G:WELL or NMFs and pausing
identifying all the ways a signer refers to the same referent throughout a text to create cohesion
