Auslan: First Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 3 and 4 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Identify and demonstrate how the formational elements of handshape and its orientation, movement, location and non-manual features can be arranged in signs which may be iconic, and explore ways of recording Auslan
Elaborations
noticing the orientation of handshapes in signs
identifying and demonstrating signs with a change in handshape, for example FIND or BEST
identifying and demonstrating signs with a change in orientation, for example CAN-NOT or HOW
distinguishing between single, double and two-handed signs, and identifying which hand is dominant and which is non-dominant in two-handed signs
thinking of body-anchored signs, such as HEAD or WHY, and signs that are not body anchored, such as HAVE or STOP and recognising that non-body anchored signs can be located in space around the signer
understanding that NMFs can also be an element of a sign and can show emotional states such as a happy expression or grammatical information, for example, a frown to mark a negative
comparing iconic signs that provide visual images of referents, such as DRINK, ELEPHANT, with English words that map to the sound images of the referents, such as animal noises, or words for sounds such as bang
describing how the movement changes between groups of related numbers, for example, 5, 15, 50, 5th
learning to film themselves and analyse the video or to read simple glosses produced by the teacher, and understanding that the English word used is often not an exact match for the meaning of the sign
