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