Auslan: First 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
identifying differences in different types of texts, for example by looking at a monologic recount compared to a dialogic one, and noticing differences such as the use of back-channels or hesitations
conducting an analysis of a selected sign text, taking into account audience, purpose and topic to explain language choices made by the signer
noticing how signers can compare or contrast ideas by locating things in the same or opposing sides of signing space
noticing how signers achieve textual cohesion and coherence through the use of connectives that create links between clauses, for example BUT and G:WELL
identifying where signers have established referents in locations in a text and noticing how this helps the audience to recognise who or what the referents are (actor and undergoer)
noticing how signers construct cohesive and coherent texts through the use of text connectives such as lexical signs NEXT or G:WELL or NMFs and pausing
