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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Comprehend routine signed text on familiar matters.
   • 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.
2. Process vocabulary and grammar for signed exchanges on familiar matters.
   • 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.
3. Present in Auslan on familiar subjects.
   • 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.
4. Engage in spontaneous Auslan conversations on familiar subjects.
   • 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.