AC9L1AU10EC03 Year 9 Languages

AC9L1AU10EC03 – 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 information, ideas and perspectives in a wide range of signed, visual and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• collecting information from a variety of signed sources to inform class discussions on current affairs such as the prevalent use of social media by young people, and discuss ways in which deaf students can access and utilise social media
• researching, composing and presenting a persuasive speech designed to invite action or support on a selected issue such as a recycling, the environment, or other social or political cause
• following procedural signed texts such as directions to follow in an unfamiliar environment, for example, at a school camp or on an excursion
• reading or viewing First Nations Australians’ stories in Auslan or English, and creating a profile of them in Auslan
• watching and summarising information provided by a guest speaker and comparing their own ideas and opinions with those of their peers
• developing questions to interview an Auslan user about their experiences or opinions on specified topics, selecting key elements from the interview to produce a digital profile to share with the class
• researching, composing and presenting a persuasive speech designed to invite action or support on a selected issue

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• viewing texts such as interviews, news reports or vlogs and selecting points of information or details to use in their own texts or opinion pieces
• evaluating Deaf performances or art forms that manipulate technology and the use of colour and light to create special effects, for example, in performances by Ian Sanborn
• responding to signed poems and VV descriptions of a character’s appearance, for example, shadowing a sample of the VV work of well-known Deaf poets and artists
• obtaining information about high-profile members of the international Deaf community to create profiles for a digital magazine or website, for example, the president of the World Federation of the Deaf (WFD)
• viewing and responding to creative texts such as television programs, movies and short stories
• sharing Auslan texts from other learning areas, using DSs to explain key concepts such as states of matter or climate variation

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANAUSFLL7_10Y910

Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students initiate and sustain interactions in Auslan to exchange and compare experiences and ideas about their own and others’ personal worlds. They communicate using non-verbal, signed and visual language to collaborate, plan and reflect on activities and events. They interpret and analyse information and ideas in texts and demonstrate understanding of different perspectives. They synthesise information and respond in Auslan or English, adjusting language to convey meaning and to suit context, purpose and audience. They use structures and features of Auslan, including fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts. Students apply features and conventions of signing to enhance communication. They select and apply knowledge of language structures and features to interact, make meaning and create texts. They support discussion of structures and features of texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their use of Auslan and their own cultural identity to discuss how these influence their ideas and ways of communicating.