The formal study of Auslan contributes to the overall intellectual and social enrichment of both first language and second language learners by providing:
Overview material | Auslan
VCASFC209 | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10 | Communicating | Reflecting
VCASFC226 | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Communicating | Identity
VCASFU036 | Languages | Auslan | First Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 3 and 4 | Understanding | Role of language and culture
Students continue to expand their language use to additional domains beyond their personal experience and interests. They use a range of grammatical forms and language structures to convey more complex relationships between ideas and experiences, creating compound and complex sentences by using...
Level description | Languages | Auslan | First Language Learner | F–10 Sequence
VCASFU053 | Languages | Auslan | First Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6 | Understanding | Language awareness
VCASFC019 | Languages | Auslan | First Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 3 and 4 | Communicating | Socialising
By the end of Level 10, students use Auslan to share information, experiences, interests, thoughts and feelings in relation to their personal and immediate worlds. They describe the appearance of people, objects and places using SASS depicting signs and spatial location, for example, HAVE DS:...
Level description | Languages | Auslan | First Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10
VCASFU179 | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6 | Understanding | Language awareness
VCASFC078 | Languages | Auslan | First Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10 | Communicating | Creating
By the end of Level 6, students discuss aspects of their daily lives, social activities and school experience and respond to each other’s comments. They describe relationships and characteristics of people and objects and express feelings and preferences, for example, POSS1 FRIEND CHANGE...
Level description | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6
VCASFC100 | Languages | Auslan | First Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Communicating | Identity
VCASFC061 | Languages | Auslan | First Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Communicating | Creating
By the end of Level 8, students interact to share ideas and interests and to offer opinions, using compound and complex sentences, for example by using lexical conjunctions as well as non-manual features (NMFs). They participate in discussions and debates, acknowledging others’ opinions...
Level description | Languages | Auslan | First Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 8, students interact with the teaching team, class visitors and each other to share information about themselves, their families, friends, routines, pastimes and experiences. They refer to family members and classmates using fingerspelling or sign names as appropriate, and...
Level description | Languages | Auslan | First Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8
Students are expanding their knowledge of vocabulary and sentence construction. With support, they use constructed action to show participants in a narrative, modify indicating verbs for non-present referents with increasing accuracy across a text, and use more complex entity depicting signs....
Level description | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence
By the end of Level 10, students interact with peers, teachers and others using Auslan to communicate about personal interests and broader issues relating to the Deaf community. They participate in class discussions, explaining and clarifying positions, asking follow-up questions, using non-manual...
Level description | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10
VCASFU121 | Languages | Auslan | First Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10 | Understanding | Systems of language
VCASFU247 | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10 | Understanding | Systems of language
VCASFU031 | Languages | Auslan | First Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 3 and 4 | Understanding | Systems of language