1st L (F–10) 5_6
Understanding

Systems of Language - Elaboration 2

- identifying where and how a signer has established a location in space, for example through the use of points, non-body-anchored signs or fingerspelled words

- distinguishing, with support, between directional and locational indicating verbs, and noticing that verbs differ depending on whether modification of movement happens at the start, end or start and end of a sign

- identifying examples of DSs in an Auslan text, and recognising that handshape and movement represent different things in each type of DS, for example:

- entity DSs: the handshape is an object or person, and the movement is the movement or location of that object or person
handling DSs: the handshape represents a person’s hands touching or moving another object, and the movement shows how the hands move
SASS DSs: the handshape and movement outline the shape or size of something
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