2nd L (F–10) 7-8
Understanding
Systems of language - Elaboration 1
- identifying, demonstrating and describing the various types of NMFs:
movements of the eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks, shoulders and body, and
describing their function
- 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
- recognising that signed languages involve more iconicity because they are
visual not auditory, with most referents having visual features
- identify and classify examples of spatial modifications of nouns and verbs in
a video text using video annotation software, for example, ELAN
- ‘reading’ and transcribing glossed texts, including interpreting the markings
that show how a sign is modified in space, NMFs, DSs and examples of CA