AC9L1AU10C04
Years 9 to 10
Languages
AC9L1AU10C04 | Years 9 to 10 Auslan: Mediating meaning in and between languages
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor interpret and translate signed, visual and written interactions and texts to reflect cultural context, purpose and audience
First language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Communicating meaning in Auslan
Substrand
Mediating meaning in and between languages
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 9 to 10 Auslan · First language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration 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’
- • Elaboration analysing a text to identify examples of where the use of space and DSs describe a scene, compared with English captions
- • Elaboration exploring how interpreting and translating vary depending on the audience, for example, one-to-one, small group or large audience
- • Elaboration considering the nature of translation, with reference to different strategies such as decoding literal meaning, reading for meaning and cultural reading
- • Elaboration interpreting and translating a text of a well-known narrative or poem and presenting it to a younger audience
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration comparing translations of simple stories in Auslan and BSL, and identifying some differences
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- • Elaboration discussing the translation of signs with a non-English equivalent, for example, PAH! and BA-BA
- • Elaboration transcribing part of a text using glossing, recording the grammatical features
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