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AC9L1AU10EC03 Years 9 to 10 Languages

AC9L1AU10EC03 | Years 9 to 10 Auslan: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Content Descriptor

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

First language learners · Years 7 to 10 sequence

The Years 7 to 10 Auslan sequence is shared by first and second language learners.

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 · Years 7 to 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration 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
  • • Elaboration 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
  • • Elaboration following procedural signed texts such as directions to follow in an unfamiliar environment, for example, at a school camp or on an excursion
  • • Elaboration reading or viewing First Nations Australians’ stories in Auslan or English, and creating a profile of them in Auslan
  • • Elaboration watching and summarising information provided by a guest speaker and comparing their own ideas and opinions with those of their peers
  • • Elaboration 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
  • • Elaboration researching, composing and presenting a persuasive speech designed to invite action or support on a selected issue
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  • • Elaboration 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
  • • Elaboration 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
  • • Elaboration 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
  • • Elaboration 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)
  • • Elaboration viewing and responding to creative texts such as television programs, movies and short stories
  • • Elaboration sharing Auslan texts from other learning areas, using DSs to explain key concepts such as states of matter or climate variation

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