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Year 7 Auslan Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
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Year 7 Auslan Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9

This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 7 Languages by the end of the year. Teachers can use it to guide assessment design, collect evidence of learning, and ensure planning stays aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9.

What Students Should Know

By the end of Year 8, students use Auslan language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions in exchanges using familiar gestures, questions and instructions. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, signed, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in Auslan or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, modelled grammatical structures, and familiar signs including fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts.

Students use the parameters of signs and demonstrate understanding that Auslan has conventions and rules for signed communication. They comment on aspects of Auslan and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that Auslan is connected with culture and identity, and that this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.

Content Descriptors by Strand

This standard is supported by 9 Content Descriptors:

Communicating meaning in Auslan

Interacting in Auslan

AC9L1AU8EC01 interact with others using modelled language to exchange information in familiar contexts about self and personal worlds AC9L1AU8EC02 engage in modelled signed and visual exchanges with peers to organise activities related to daily life and school environment

Mediating meaning in and between languages

AC9L1AU8EC03 locate and process information and ideas in familiar signed, visual and multimodal texts, responding in ways appropriate to cultural context, purpose and audience AC9L1AU8EC04 develop and begin to apply strategies to interpret, translate and convey meaning in Auslan in familiar contexts

Creating text in Auslan

AC9L1AU8EC05 create signed, visual and multimodal informative and imaginative texts using modelled fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space

Understanding language and culture

Understanding systems of language

AC9L1AU8EU01 recognise and use modelled combinations of handshape, orientation, location, movement (HOLM) and non-manual features (NMFs) to form signs and phrases and demonstrate understanding of how these are represented in familiar contexts AC9L1AU8EU02 develop knowledge, and use structures and features of, the Auslan grammatical system to understand and create signed, visual and multimodal texts AC9L1AU8EU03 compare Auslan language structures and features with English, using familiar metalanguage

Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity

AC9L1AU8EU04 recognise how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values

At a Glance

Strand Substrand CDs Elaborations
Communicating meaning in Auslan Interacting in Auslan 2 24
Communicating meaning in Auslan Mediating meaning in and between languages 2 21
Communicating meaning in Auslan Creating text in Auslan 1 11
Understanding language and culture Understanding systems of language 3 45
Understanding language and culture Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity 1 9
Total 9 110

Frequently Asked Questions

What should students know by the end of Year 7 Auslan?
By the end of Year 8, students use Auslan language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions in exchanges using familiar gestures, questions and instructions. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, signed, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in Auslan or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, modelled grammatical structures, and familiar signs including fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts. Students use the parameters of signs and demonstrate understanding that Auslan has conventions and rules for signed communication. They comment on aspects of Auslan and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that Auslan is connected with culture and identity, and that this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.
How many Content Descriptors support this standard?
9 Content Descriptors support this Achievement Standard (Communicating meaning in Auslan: 2, Communicating meaning in Auslan: 2, Communicating meaning in Auslan: 1, Understanding language and culture: 3, Understanding language and culture: 1).
How does this compare to Year 5?
The Year 5 Auslan standard (ASLANAUSFLLF10Y56) covers the preceding year level. Standards build progressively, with Year 7 expectations extending what was introduced in Year 5.
Is this from the latest Australian Curriculum?
Yes, this Achievement Standard is from the Australian Curriculum version 9.0 (AC v9), the most current version published by ACARA.