Auslan: Second Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 7 and 8 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Understand and control additional elements of Auslan grammar, such as the use of non-manual features for negation or conditional forms, and understand how signers use constructed action and depicting signs in composite utterances
Elaborations
recognising the nature and function of word classes and understanding that the context of the sign is important and Auslan signs will not always have the same word class as an English word, for example, adjectives can act like verbs in Auslan
recognising that signers may include linguistic and gestural elements in a clause, that is, signers can tell, show or do both simultaneously
noticing, with support, when signers are using composite utterances, that is, those that have elements of CA, DSs, points and fully-lexical signs in the same utterance
understanding the different functions of a range of NMFs, such as those used for questions, topicalisation, negation or conditional forms
distinguishing between yes/no questions and wh- questions and statements and their corresponding NMFs
recognising that clauses can be joined by conjunctions to make longer sentences and these conjunctions can be shown with separate signs, such as PLUS, or THEN or NMFs, for example by pausing between clauses
recognising that clauses can be linked equally or unequally where one clause depends on another
