SACE Stage 2 Auslan (continuers) study guide
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Auslan (continuers) is a Stage 2 SACE subject (code 2AUC20, 20 credits) for students continuing their study of Auslan, the visual-gestural language of the Australian Deaf community. The subject outline is developed from the Collaborative Curriculum and Assessment Framework for Languages (CCAFL), a national model for language teaching, learning and assessment. Students are expected to develop competence in the morphological, syntactic and discourse structures of Auslan, with regional variations recognised when used appropriately. They learn to communicate meaningfully with people across cultures, reflect on their own attitudes, beliefs and values, and understand how Deaf culture and identity are expressed through its natural signed language. Topics on this exam: School assessment and External assessment. The SACE Stage 2 Auslan (continuers) study guide has 2 sections and about 740 words.
01School Assessment: Building and Evidencing Your Auslan Skills
School assessment in SACE Stage 2 Auslan (continuers) is where you demonstrate sustained communicative competence across the year. You must understand the three interrelated strands that tasks draw on: receptive competence (comprehending signed texts such as narratives, interviews, vlogs and announcements), productive competence (creating coherent signed texts for real purposes and audiences), and intercultural and linguistic understanding (how Auslan grammar, register, and Deaf cultural norms shape meaning). Know how handshape, location, movement, orientation and non-manual features combine to build meaning, and how spatial mapping, referential signing, role shift and constructed action organise a signed text. Understand register (formal presentation versus conversational), cohesion (how you maintain referents across a text), and text structure (orientation, complication, resolution in narrative; position, support, conclusion in persuasive signing).
365 words, about 2 min02External Assessment: Examination Technique for Auslan (continuers)
The external component assesses your ability to comprehend and respond to signed texts and to produce signed texts under timed conditions. Expect receptive tasks based on viewed signed material (for example, short interviews, narratives or informational texts, often viewed more than once) and productive tasks where you plan and record a signed response to a prompt. Some tasks require analysis or evaluation in written English using linguistic metalanguage. Be fluent in the parameters of signs and in syntax : topic-comment order, time markers placed early, negation with headshake and negative signs, question forms signalled by eyebrows and body lean, and conditional or rhetorical structures.
375 words, about 2 min