ACLASFU017
Elaborations
- 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