AC9L1AU10C03 Year 9 Languages

AC9L1AU10C03 – Year 9 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in Auslan

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between 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.

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

• applying knowledge of grammar and culture when viewing signed texts, to understand meaning, and discussing language choices made
• 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
• sequencing and summarising the key points of an extended, informative signed presentation on a current issue
• reading or viewing First Nations Australians’ stories in Auslan or English, and creating a profile of them in Auslan
• 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
• using signed and multimodal sources to research significant events in Deaf history to show how information can be presented in different ways
• 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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• 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
• 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
• viewing a captioned play and reviewing the production
• considering and responding to situations where Deaf Gain and Deafhood may occur in an event, book, article or filmed footage

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANAUSFLLF10Y910

Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students contribute to and extend interactions in Auslan related to diverse contexts. They interpret and respond to texts by evaluating and synthesising information, ideas and perspectives. They show understanding of how features of language can be used to influence audience response. They create texts, selecting and manipulating language for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. They apply and use complex structures and language devices to enhance meaning and cohesion.Students apply features and conventions of Auslan and adjust signing to extend fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the conventions of texts and the connections between them. They apply knowledge of language structures and features to make and predict meaning. They support analysis of Auslan texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own cultural perspectives and identity, and draw on their experience of learning Auslan, to evaluate how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.