Auslan: First Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 5 and 6 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Identify different types of verbs based on their ability to integrate space into the sign, and recognise types of depiction available to a signer, namely, entity, handling and SASS depicting signs and constructed action
Elaborations
identifying where and how a signer has established a location in space, for example through the use of points, non-body-anchored signs or fingerspelled words
distinguishing, with support, between directional and locational indicating verbs, and noticing that verbs differ depending on whether modification of movement happens at the start, end or start and end of a sign
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
learning that the function of CA is to represent the words, thoughts or actions of a protagonist in a text, either themselves or another
knowing that in CA a signer can shift into the role of another, or themselves at a different time, through eye gaze change, body shift, head orientation change, and matching facial expressions
