K–10Auslan K–10 Syllabus
The new Auslan K–10 Syllabus (2023) is to be implemented from 2026.
2024 and 2025 – Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2024 and 2025 – Option to start teaching
2026 – Start teaching new syllabus for schools that choose to offer Auslan:
- within a K–6 language program
- for the mandatory 100 hours of language study in Years 7–10
- as Stage 5 language elective
School sectors are responsible for implementing syllabuses and are best placed to provide schools with specific guidance and information on implementation given their understanding of their individual contexts.
Content
Stage 3
- AU3-INT-01
exchanges information and opinions using familiar language and protocols for known audiences
Content is provided for:
- Additional: students learning Auslan as an additional language
- Prior learning/experience: students learning Auslan with knowledge and/or experience from in or outside the classroom
- First: students learning Auslan as their first language.
Interact with peers and teachers to share information and opinions
Collaborate with peers to plan and conduct shared events or activities using familiar language
Interact with peers, teachers and/or visitors in formal and informal contexts
Participate in discussions using communication strategies to clarify meaning and sustain conversation
Negotiate with peers using appropriate language
Use fingerspelling in prepared interactions
Identify different information in parts of the sign, including the movement or handshape
Use constructed action to show participants
Modify indicating verbs for non-present referents
Use more complex entity depicting signs
Use smooth and fluent fingerspelling in prepared and spontaneous interactions
Describe a sign’s form in terms of all the elements and how they are put together, including types of non-manual features and information included through modifications to a sign
Use constructed action, including different strategies to shift between participants
Recognise that handshape and movement represent different things in each type of depicting sign
Use a range of grammatical non-manual features and depicting signs
Interact with peers, teachers or members of the Deaf community using a range of protocols
Reflect on how Auslan and associated communicative behaviours are similar to or different from wider community spoken languages and forms of cultural expression
Participate effectively in group discussions using a range of protocols and communication strategies
Make themselves understood when signing on videoconference platforms and take into account the different spatial layout on other participants’ screens