2nd
L (F–10) F-2
Understanding
Language
awareness - Elaboration 6
- identifying different languages used by their classmates or members of
their families, for example by creating a class profile or language map
- exploring similarities and differences between the many languages used in
Australia and represented in the school, including spoken and signed Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander languages, and comparing the ways different languages
use writing, sound/speech, gestures, drawings, art and signs to communicate
- recognising the unique nature of signed languages and understanding that there
are many different signed languages in use around the world, including in
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, and that there is not one
‘universal’ signed language
- recognising that Auslan is a legitimate language, different from mime and
gestures such as those used to accompany songs in spoken languages
- exploring why and how some people are deaf, and identifying different ways
that they access language; and investigating the use of hearing aids, FM systems
or cochlear implants