2nd L (F–10) F-2
Understanding

 Systems of language - Elaboration 1

- realising that meaning is communicated through the use of signs, pictures, written or spoken words or miming

- identifying the handshape of a sign, for example, COCKATOO (hs:5) and SOCCER (hs:fist)

- recognising major types of path movements

- understanding that sounds in English words are like handshapes, movements and locations in Auslan in the sense that they are combined together to make signs

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

- recognising that some signs are iconic, linking to the appearance of a referent, for example, HOUSE, TREE, DRINK, ELEPHANT, and that some are not, such as SISTER, WHY, SIMPLE

- understanding that while English is spoken and heard as well as written and read, Auslan is usually uniquely ‘through the air’ and not written down

- experimenting with different ways of recording signs, including video, writing an English word or drawing pictures