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Achievement Standard Auslan Years 7 and 8

By the end of Year 8, students use Auslan to interact and to exchange information, experiences, interests and opinions with teachers, peers and others. They initiate and maintain conversations and use strategies such as fingerspelling to replace …

Years 7 and 8 Auslan

The nature of the learners Learners are beginning their study of Auslan and typically have had little prior exposure to the language or to the Deaf community. Many will have learnt an additional language in primary school, and some have proficiency in …

Achievement Standard Auslan Foundation to Year 2

By the end of Year 2, students interact with teachers and each other to talk about themselves, their families, friends and immediate environment. They follow instructions to complete action-based activities such as signing games or transactional activities, …

Elaboration (8) ACLASFC226

identifying and researching Deaf community identities associated with significant historical places, such as William Thomson establishing the first deaf school in WA

ACLASFU230

Recognise and use elements of clause structure, such as noun groups/phrases or verb groups/phrases and using conjunctions to join clauses[Key concepts: sign class, noun and verb groups, conjunctions, clauses, sign order; Key processes: recognising, observing, …

Elaborations ScOT Terms

Elaboration ACLASFU160

exploring similarities and differences in Auslan dialects through building webcam relationships with other schools or through identifying and collecting signs that differ in the northern (Qld and NSW) and southern (Vic., SA, WA and Tas.) dialects, such …

Elaboration (5) ACLASFC164

allocating responsibilities for the completion of shared tasks, such as following a recipe or building a model

Elaboration (1) ACLASFU252

exploring the nature and effect of culture, for example by comparing the cultural concept of Deaf identity with a medical model of deafness

Elaboration ACLASFU198

exploring the nature of culture and how it is related to ways of thinking and using language, for example by comparing the cultural concept of Deaf identity with a medical model of deafness

Elaboration (15) ACLASFU230

noticing that while word order in sentences is often important for meaning, there is flexibility in word order in Auslan and that because parts of a sentence can be signed simultaneously in Auslan, it is hard to establish word order

Elaboration (7) ACLASFU140

noticing that Auslan has more flexibility in word order than in English

Elaboration ACLASFU216

analysing language used in pathological and sociocultural models of deafness, and the impact that each model, the philosophy that frames it and the language used to express it may have in regard to services for deaf people

Elaboration (5) ACLASFC182

problem-solving around collaborative activities such as website design, science experiments or model-building, using wh- questions such as: WHY FAIL WHY? Why isn’t it working? WHO THINK CAN FIX? Who thinks they can fix it? FINISH, NEXT WHAT? What …

Elaboration (3) ACLASFC155

reflecting on the need for sustained eye contact when using Auslan in order to understand a message and before teacher instructions can proceed

Elaboration (9) ACLASFU176

noticing that parts of a sentence can be signed simultaneously in Auslan, making it hard to establish word order

Elaboration (3) ACLASFC227