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Content description VCASFU248

Auslan: Second Language Learner 7–10 Sequence / Levels 9 and 10 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Understand and control additional elements of Auslan grammar, such as the use of non-manual features for topicalisation, negation or conditional forms, and develop awareness of how signers use constructed action and depicting signs in composite utterances
Elaborations
  1. observing that some noun groups are not signed overtly, particularly if maintaining the same referent rather than introducing a new one
  2. distinguishing between the citation form of a sign and the adverbial NMF overlaid and what meaning each part carries, for example: MAN SPRINT (base form), MAN SPRINT-fast (manner added)
  3. recognising that signers can give information about how a verb happens over time by changing the movement, for example, signing WATCH versus WATCH-for-a-long-time, or with lexical signs such as WATCH AGAIN++
  4. recognising that some adverbs modify adjectives, not verbs, for example VERY, and that these modifications to adjectives can also be expressed with NMFs, for example changes in mouth patterns and movement of signs can intensify adjectives, for example, RED-really, PLEASED-really, TALL-really
  5. recognising that typically signers use DSs to show spatial relationships, not separate signs such as ON or UNDER
  6. recognising how conjunctions such as PLUS, IF or BUT are used to join clauses and create cohesion
  7. recognising that clauses can also be joined through particular NMFs
  8. noticing that clauses can be linked equally or unequally, where one clause depends on another
  9. recognising that the element of a clause that a signer wants to focus on most in Auslan is sometimes moved to be signed first and that this process of topicalisation involves particular NMFs
  10. noticing that clauses are elaborated and made more vivid by adding adjectives and adverbs and by enacting or using DSs
  11. realising that in many clauses signers ‘tell’ with fully-lexical signs at the same time as ‘show’ with DS, periods of CA and other gestural elements
  12. noticing when signers are using composite utterances, for example those that include elements of CA, DSs, points and lexical signs, and how that affects the structure of a clause
Code
VCASFU248
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