1st
L (Yr 7 Entry) 7-8
Understanding
Language variation and change
- Elaboration 5
- exploring different ways to show the same concept, for example though a
picture, a spoken word, a sign, a home sign or a gesture
- exploring similarities and differences in the two main Auslan dialects, the
northern dialect used in New South Wales, Queensland and the Australian Capital
Territory, and the southern dialect used in Victoria, South Australia, Western
Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory, for example through building
webcam relationships with other schools or by identifying and collecting signs
that differ in the two forms
- noticing different ways that English words are borrowed into Auslan, for
example, the use of fully fingerspelled words, such as D-U-E, N-O-U-N, the
fingerspelling of the first letter of corresponding English words, for example
TOILET, FATHER, or abbreviations of English words, for example, state names:
S-A, N-S-W, V-I-C, T-A-S, and organisation names: N-A-B-S, W-A-A-D, N-S-W-A-D,
D-C-S-S-A, and lexicalised fingerspelling, such as HOW, BUT, ABOUT, FOR
- noticing the variation in ‘handedness’ between signers in relation to signs
and to fingerspelling: right handers using their right hand as their dominant
(main) hand; left handers doing the opposite
- considering adaptations to language use when communicating in different
physical environments, such as in video chats, across a large yard, or when one
or both hands are occupied, for example choice of vocabulary, size of signing
space, clarity of signs, use of fingerspelling and NMFs