K–10Auslan K–10 Syllabus

Use common vocabulary and simple sentence construction

Identify and describe elements of sign production, including handshape and its orientation, movement, location and non-manual features

Identify and describe the link between signs and their referents

Identify what can be represented in a depicting sign by handshape

Locate pronouns, depicting signs and non-body-anchored verbs meaningfully in the standard signing space to show participants in a process

Recognise that verbs can be modified spatially to express relationships with participants and that space is used meaningfully in Auslan

Recognise and use elements of clause structure, including noun groups/phrases, verb groups/phrases and conjunctions

Communicate about their personal world

Recognise that meaning is created in Auslan from fully-lexical signs, partly-lexical signs, non-lexical constructed action and gestures

Recognise that signers can use locations for present, non-present and abstract referents

Discuss how constructed action is marked in a text

Recognise that signers may include linguistic and gestural elements in a clause

Identify different types of non-manual features and how they function in a clause

Recognise similarities and differences in language features and cohesive devices in different text types

Communicate on a range of topics, issues and concepts

Create compound and complex sentences using lexical conjunctions and non-manual features

Use interjections and discourse markers

Recognise that meaning is created in Auslan from fully-lexical, partly-lexical signs, non-lexical constructed action and gestures, including in a single clause

Use signing space, including character and observer space, with and without constructed action

Identify how a signer refers to the same referent throughout a text to create cohesion

Recognise and use a range of choices available in composite utterances

Examine and use different types of iconic signs including transparent, translucent and arbitrary signs

Recognise that signed languages show more iconicity than spoken languages and that most references have visual features

Describe various types of clauses and recognise when they co-occur with non-manual features

Recognise how linguistic structures shape textual features

Recognise connections between texts and cultural contexts

Compare and discuss differences in textual features in a range of Auslan and English texts

Create a simple recount using lexical signs and showing with depicting signs and constructed action

Create texts about their ideas and concepts using familiar signs, gestures, drawing and visual supports with a focus on emotions, appearance and actions

Create bilingual texts for the classroom

Create texts and make choices relating to context, purpose and audience

Communicate in Auslan about real or imagined people, places or experiences

Create bilingual texts for the wider school community

Create informative and persuasive texts for a variety of contexts and audiences

Create imaginative and expressive texts that draw on their experience as Auslan users and members of the Deaf community

Create a short visual vernacular text that shows close and distant focus

Create bilingual texts for a range of intercultural contexts