Auslan: First Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 3 and 4 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Observe that signers can include different information, including gestural overlays, within a single sign, and identify examples of signers using space grammatically through points, depicting signs and constructed action
Elaborations
recognising that Auslan has fully-lexical signs that are in the dictionary and have a standard handshape, movement and location, and partly-lexical signs that cannot be listed in a dictionary in all forms as they change their form each time they are signed, such as DSs
noticing that fully- and partly-lexical signs can include grammatical information not included in a ‘citation’ form, for example, the sign TELL -me is not listed separately to TELL (towards neutral space) and GO-TO includes GO-TO -often
discussing the functions of different pointing signs, such as pronouns, determiners and locatives
understanding that some verb forms in Auslan indicate who is involved in a verb by changing the direction of the movement or orientation of the handshape
noticing the relationship between the location of referents and the direction of some indicating verbs
recognising who is the actor and undergoer of the verb in a clause
identifying with support examples of DSs and becoming familiar with the terms entity, handling and SASS DSs
comparing English adjectives with SASS DSs
knowing that signers can reconstruct/act out their own or another’s talk and/or actions and that this is called CA
