1st
L (Yr 7 Entry) 9-10
Understanding
Systems of language
- Elaboration 2
- noticing that meaning is created in Auslan from fully-lexical signs,
partly-lexical signs and non-lexical signing and gesture
- understanding that fully-lexical signs are in the dictionary and have a
standard handshape, movement and location, and partly-lexical signs can be
changed to show information such as location or who is involved in indicating
verbs
- noticing that single-digit numbers can be separate lexical items or merged
into other signs (numeral incorporation) such as those for ages, for example,
5-YEARS-OLD or adverbs of time, for example, 3-WEEKS-AGO or pronouns, for
example, WE3, WE4
- identifying where and how a signer has established a location in space
(through pointing, modifying the movement of a verb, or locating a
non-body-anchored noun sign)
- recognising that signers must make explicit which referent is associated with
a location
- recognising that signers can set up referents in the signing space close to
them (viewer space), for example, using a bC handshape (use of non-dominant
hand) to indicate putting a glass on a table or distant (diagrammatic) for
example, using 5claw in two locations to represent two houses
- identifying independently instances of DSs and their type
- 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