AC9L1AU10C01 Year 9 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 Languages provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

initiate, sustain and extend exchanges in a range of contexts, responding to ideas, opinions and perspectives, adjusting their language in response to others

Elaborations

• 1 using code-switching skills to communicate with a range of Auslan users such as those who are Deafblind, young or new to signing
• 2

  using impartiality to ask and respond to requests for elaboration or perspectives, for example,

  WELL ONE RESEARCH PT+f SHOW BUT OTHER RESEARCH SHOW DIFFERENT

  Well, one type of research showed this, but another type of research showed a different result.

• 3

  integrating discourse markers to facilitate coherent and cohesive flow of communication, for example,

  ANYWAY, THEN, PAUSE-NOD

  , list buoys,

  fs:SO, NOW, BUT

  , as well as hand clasp, hand drop to indicate turn-taking

• 4 demonstrating appropriate use of register to show formal or informal interactions by modifying manner, pace, use of signing space, pauses or eye gaze, in role-plays and skits
• 5

  identifying and using nuances in emotions and opinions, for example,

  RECOGNISE PRO2 UPSET PRO1(PL) TIME-OUT

  I acknowledge that you are upset. Let’s take a break from this.

  WOW TRUE IMPACT PT+c

  Wow, that’s really made an impact on me.

  ANGRY? FURIOUS!

  I’m not angry … I’m furious!

• 6

  making connections between their own and others’ ideas or beliefs in an exchange using conditionals, for example,

  SOMETIMES POSSIBLE HAPPEN WHY? FS:IF PRO2 PAST THINK (CONTEMPLATE) WILL TRUE HAPPEN

  Sometimes things happen because you think they will, so it comes true.

  FS:IF PRO2 THINK PRO2 CAN PRO2 CAN. FS:IF PRO2 THINK PRO2 CAN-NOT PRO2 CAN-NOT

  If you think you can, you can. If you think you can’t, you can’t.

• 7

  engaging in turn-taking to share views, opinions and cultural perspectives on a topic, for example,

  WAIT LET PT+rt FINISH FIRST THEN PRO2 PT+f

  Wait for the person to finish talking then you can have your turn.

• 8 demonstrating different strategies and sign choices when communicating in different contexts, for example, modifying the timing of signing when with an interpreter

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