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 initiate and maintain interactions in Auslan in familiar and unfamiliar contexts related to a range of experiences and perspectives. They use Auslan to negotiate solutions and adjust language in response to others. They interpret and analyse information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences between languages and in cultural contexts, by reorganising responses to suit context, purpose and audience. They select and use features of signing, structures and expressions, manipulating language to create texts.
Students apply the conventions of signing to enhance fluency. They demonstrate understanding that signed, visual and multimodal texts use different language conventions, structures and features to convey meaning. They explain structures and features of Auslan text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how Auslan language, culture and identity are interconnected, and compare this with 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
AC9L1AU8C01 initiate and sustain exchanges in familiar and unfamiliar contexts related to students’ experiences, feelings and opinions, adjusting their language in response to others AC9L1AU8C02 collaborate in activities that involve the language of transacting, negotiating and justifying, to plan projects and eventsMediating meaning in and between languages
AC9L1AU8C03 interpret and analyse information, ideas and opinions in a range of signed, visual and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience AC9L1AU8C04 interpret and adjust signed, visual and written language to convey meaning in a range of familiar and unfamiliar cultural contextsCreating text in Auslan
AC9L1AU8C05 create and present signed, visual and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts, manipulating language to suit context, purpose and audienceUnderstanding language and culture
Understanding systems of language
AC9L1AU8U01 apply knowledge of conventions of sign production to enhance fluency, and respond to and create texts in familiar and unfamiliar contexts AC9L1AU8U02 apply understanding of grammatical structures and expressions to compose and respond to a range of texts AC9L1AU8U03 reflect on similarities and differences between Auslan and English language structures and features, using metalanguageUnderstanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity
AC9L1AU8U04 reflect on and explain how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values, and how these impact on communicationAt a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communicating meaning in Auslan | Interacting in Auslan | 2 | 18 |
| Communicating meaning in Auslan | Mediating meaning in and between languages | 2 | 17 |
| Communicating meaning in Auslan | Creating text in Auslan | 1 | 11 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language | 3 | 29 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity | 1 | 11 |
| Total | 9 | 86 | |