Auslan – Foundation Year
Learning Objectives
In Foundation, Auslan learning builds on the Early Years Learning Framework and each student’s prior learning and experiences with language. Students communicate with teachers and peers. They strengthen and extend their communication and interpersonal skills by interacting in Auslan through play-based and action-related learning. They receive extensive support through modelling, scaffolding and revisiting.
Students experience and imitate the gestures of Auslan. They participate in shared viewing of texts that represent Auslan and Auslan contexts. Visual and multimodal texts may include captioned films and cartoons, conversations, picture books, performances, rhymes and stories. They learn that language can be represented in different ways, including using signs and gestures in Auslan and the Roman alphabet in English. They learn that languages and cultures are connected, and that what is familiar to one person can be new to somebody else.
Achievement Standard
By the end of the Foundation year, students use play and imagination to interact and create Auslan texts, with support. They identify that Auslan and English are different. They recognise that there are languages and cultures as well as their own, and that aspects of language and culture contribute to their own and others’ cultural identity.