ELEMENTS

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Elements describe the essential outcomes

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Comprehend complex signed text on both abstract and concrete matters.

1.1. Extrapolate the meaning, from contextual cues, of unfamiliar signed phrases and words, and intention of the Auslan text.

1.2. Extract information content from recorded Auslan texts delivered in standard or local sign and identify signers’ mood and tone.

1.3. Comprehend signed announcements and messages on abstract and concrete topics in standard or local sign at normal speed.

1.4. Follow content, with some effort, of live discussion between proficient or native signers.

2. Process vocabulary and grammar for signed exchanges on both abstract and concrete matters.

2.1. Use high accuracy, but with some gaps and circumlocution, for a broad vocabulary repertoire of signs dealing with known concrete and abstract topics.

2.2. Use a relatively high degree of grammatical control with only minor flaws in signed sentence structure so that meaning and questions are understood.

3. Present in Auslan on abstract and concrete subjects.

3.1. Give clear prepared signed presentations on known concrete and abstract topics.

3.2. Communicate opinions, advantages and disadvantages of options.

3.3. Answer, in Auslan, a series of follow-up questions with a degree of fluency and spontaneity.

4. Engage in spontaneous Auslan conversations on abstract and concrete subjects.

4.1 Initiate, maintain and close extended face-to-face conversations on both abstract and concrete topics.

4.2. Pronounce signs clearly and naturally with intonation.

4.3. Produce stretches of text with fairly even tempo and spontaneity with infrequent pauses and hesitation.

4.4. Follow, in detail, signing of proficient or native speakers when delivered in standard sign.

4.5. Ask follow-up questions to check understanding of what other signer has said and to clarify ambiguous points.