This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to communicate in Auslan with some confidence on familiar, routine and some non-routine matters. Communication may take place in any situation including personal, public, social, employment and educational domains.

This unit aligns to an adaptation, for sign languages, of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), BI: Independent User.

This is an Auslan signer who can:

understand the main points when clear, standard language (which for sign language users may be a locally used variation) is used and the topics are familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc.

deal with most situations likely to arise where the sign language is used

produce simple connected text on topics, which are familiar, or of personal interest

describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.

No occupational licensing, certification or specific legislative requirements apply to this unit at the time of publication.

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List each assessment task's title, type (eg project, observation/demonstration, essay, assingnment, checklist) and due date here

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Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.

Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.

Observation Checklist

Tasks to be observed according to workplace/college/TAFE policy and procedures, relevant legislation and Codes of Practice	Yes	No	Comments/feedback
Derive the meaning, from contextual cues, of unknown and unfamiliar signs to deduce sentence meaning for familiar subjects.
Extract main points from recorded Auslan texts about familiar subjects when signed relatively slowly and clearly.
Comprehend simple technical instructions and detailed directions provided in Auslan.
Follow the main points of live discussion between proficient or native signers when delivered in standard sign.
Use and show good control, but with some significant error and circumlocution, of an elementary vocabulary repertoire of signs dealing with familiar subjects.
Use reasonably accurate signed sentence patterns about familiar subjects so that meaning and questions are understood but with some self-correction.
Give prepared straightforward signed announcements or presentations on familiar topics.
Communicate main points of immediate relevance with reasonable precision.
Answer, in Auslan, follow-up questions, asking for repetition as required.
Initiate, maintain and close simple face-to-face conversations on topics that are familiar or of personal interest.
Pronounce signs clearly and intelligibly but with an “accent” sometimes evident and with occasional mispronunciations.
Continue with relative ease throughout the conversation with some infrequent pauses and repetition.
Follow signing of proficient or native speakers when clearly articulated in standard sign but with some words and phrases repeated.
Ask for clarification or elaboration of signing when not understood.

Assessment Cover Sheet

PSPLAN004 - Converse in Auslan at an independent user level (familiar subjects)

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Assessment Record Sheet

PSPLAN004 - Converse in Auslan at an independent user level (familiar subjects)

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