AC9L1AU10C04 Year 9 Languages

AC9L1AU10C04 – 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

interpret and translate signed, visual and written interactions and texts to reflect cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• experimenting with Auslan translations of popular English idioms and phrases with non-compositional meaning, giving justification explanations for language choices, for example, ‘You’re in over your head’
• analysing a text to identify examples of where the use of space and DSs describe a scene, compared with English captions
• exploring how interpreting and translating vary depending on the audience, for example, one-to-one, small group or large audience
• considering the nature of translation, with reference to different strategies such as decoding literal meaning, reading for meaning and cultural reading
• interpreting and translating a text of a well-known narrative or poem and presenting it to a younger audience
• using different types of communicating and interpreting, such as the use of tactile signing, haptics and visual frames in real-time, depending on context, purpose or audience
• comparing translations of simple stories in Auslan and BSL, and identifying some differences

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discussing the translation of signs with a non-English equivalent, for example,
PAH!
and
BA-BA
• transcribing part of a text using glossing, recording the grammatical features

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.