Auslan: First 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 particular signs, depicting signs, some verbs, enacting and pronouns make use of spatial relationships
Elaborations
describing the range of signing space in normal signed discourse
recognising that non-body-anchored nouns can be located in the signing space and identifying instances of this
noticing that Auslan pronouns are different from English because they don’t show gender but they can show the location and a specific number of referents, for example, WE2 (inclusive) and WE3 (inclusive) or WE2-NOT-INLCLUDING-YOU (exclusive)
noticing that a point can refer to a person, place or thing
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
distinguishing between entity, handling or SASS DSs by looking at what the handshape represents in each type:
entity: the handshape is an object or person
handling: the handshape represents a person’s hands touching or moving another object
