Year 9 Auslan Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 9 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 10, students initiate and sustain interactions in Auslan to exchange and compare experiences and ideas about their own and others’ personal worlds. They communicate using non-verbal, signed and visual language to collaborate, plan and reflect on activities and events. They interpret and analyse information and ideas in texts and demonstrate understanding of different perspectives. They synthesise information and respond in Auslan or English, adjusting language to convey meaning and to suit context, purpose and audience. They use structures and features of Auslan, including fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts.
Students apply features and conventions of signing to enhance communication. They select and apply knowledge of language structures and features to interact, make meaning and create texts. They support discussion of structures and features of texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their use of Auslan and their own cultural identity to discuss how these influence their ideas and ways of communicating.
Content Descriptors by Strand
This standard is supported by 9 Content Descriptors:
Communicating meaning in Auslan
Interacting in Auslan
AC9L2AU10EC01 initiate and sustain interactions in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts to exchange ideas, experiences and opinions about their own and others’ personal worlds AC9L2AU10EC02 use signed and visual exchanges to discuss, plan and reflect on activities, events and experiences with peersMediating meaning in and between languages
AC9L2AU10EC03 Interpret information, ideas and perspectives in a wide range of signed, visual and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience AC9L2AU10EC04 apply strategies to interpret and translate signed interactions, visual and written texts, to convey meaning and intercultural understanding in familiar and unfamiliar contextsCreating text in Auslan
AC9L2AU10EC05 create signed, visual and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts, selecting features of signing, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, for familiar and some unfamiliar contexts and purposes, to engage different audiencesUnderstanding language and culture
Understanding systems of language
AC9L2AU10EU01 apply features of Auslan sign production including handshape, orientation, location and movement (HOLM), and non-manual features (NMFs), and show how these are represented in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts AC9L2AU10EU02 select and use structures and features of the Auslan grammatical system to enhance meaning and create signed, visual and multimodal texts AC9L2AU10EU03 reflect on and evaluate Auslan texts, using metalanguage to discuss language structures and featuresUnderstanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity
AC9L2AU10EU04 reflect on and explain how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values, and how these affect ways of communicatingAt 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 | 26 |
| Communicating meaning in Auslan | Creating text in Auslan | 1 | 10 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language | 3 | 30 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity | 1 | 11 |
| Total | 9 | 101 | |