AC9L1AU10C03 Years 9 to 10 Languages

Content descriptor evaluate and synthesise information, ideas and perspectives in a broad range of signed, visual and multimodal texts and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• • Elaboration applying knowledge of grammar and culture when viewing signed texts, to understand meaning, and discussing language choices made
• • Elaboration analysing different signed texts from international deaf signers, such as from World Federation of the Deaf (WFD), and commenting on the strategies used to convey meaning
• • Elaboration sequencing and summarising the key points of an extended, informative signed presentation on a current issue
• • Elaboration reading or viewing First Nations Australians’ stories in Auslan or English, and creating a profile of them in Auslan
• • Elaboration comparing the language choices used in a formal and an informal signed text on the same topic, with a focus on pace and pauses, use of space, signing space and NMFs
• • Elaboration using signed and multimodal sources to research significant events in Deaf history to show how information can be presented in different ways
• • Elaboration analysing performances of Deaf poetry, for example, discussing themes, expression and construction, and comparing how sign choice and stylistic techniques combine to convey ideas and emotions

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• • Elaboration identifying the different roles of storytelling in Deaf culture, such as teaching, entertaining and communicating traditions or values, and finding examples of these in well-known stories, fables or legends
• • Elaboration responding to signed poems that use extended metaphor to communicate ideas and values or to express emotional experience, for example, ‘Butterfly hands’ by Walter Kadiki
• • Elaboration viewing a captioned play and reviewing the production
• • Elaboration considering and responding to situations where Deaf Gain and Deafhood may occur in an event, book, article or filmed footage