1st L (Yr 7 Entry) 9-10
Understanding

Systems of language - Elaboration 1

- understanding that NMFs are important in sign language for marking forms such as questions

- identifying, demonstrating and describing the various types of NMFs: movements of the eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks, shoulders and body

- identifying the NMFs in statements, yes/no questions, wh- questions, and negatives

- noticing that in signed languages meaning can be expressed through signs or through fingerspelling

- understanding that signs can be iconic in a number of ways, such as representing a whole object or part of an object

- identifying signs with different levels of iconicity, for example, those that are fully transparent, translucent or arbitrary

- exploring, with support, software such as ELAN to annotate signed texts