2nd L (F–10) 5-6
Understanding

 Systems of language - Elaboration 2

- recognising that Auslan has fully-lexical signs that are in the dictionary and have a standard handshape, movement and location, and partly-lexical signs that cannot be listed in a dictionary in all forms as they change their form each time they are signed, such as DSs

- noticing that fully- and partly-lexical signs can include grammatical information not included in a ‘citation’ form, for example, the sign TELL-me is not listed separately to TELL (towards neutral space) and GO-TO includes GO-TO-often

- identifying where a signer has established a location in space (for example, through points, non-body-anchored signs, fingerspelled words or verb movement changes)

- recognising that signers must make explicit which referent is associated with a location

- identifying examples of each type of DS in an Auslan text: entity DSs, handling DSs and SASS DSs

- learning that the function of CA is to represent the words, thoughts or actions of a protagonist in a text, either themselves or another

- knowing that in CA a signer can shift into the role of another, or themselves at a different time, through eye gaze change, body shift, head orientation change, and matching facial expressions