AC9L1AU10EC05 Year 9 Languages

AC9L1AU10EC05 – Year 9 Languages: Creating text in Auslan

Strand

Communicating meaning in Auslan

Substrand

Creating text in Auslan

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

create signed, visual and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts, selecting features of signing, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, for familiar and some unfamiliar contexts and purposes, to engage different audiences

Elaborations

• presenting an autobiography of experiences as a deaf person, demonstrating cohesion and referent tracking
• presenting a biographical report on a prominent deaf person, using visual prompts to describe their life and achievements, and incorporating some commentary and personal opinion
• providing instructions in an engaging or entertaining style to create interest in a group activity such as an information-gap game or a sign linguistics game
• creating digital clips, social media posts or presentations in Auslan that are designed to persuade, inform or invite response on an issue of relevance such as recycling and ‘zero waste’
• reflecting in Auslan on the impact of a visit to a significant cultural First Nations Country/Place location, and, with permission, referring to cultural knowledge of the site
• creating a promotional signed text about the aims and goals of an upcoming event such as the school fete, an environmental walk, or a fundraiser for a local charity
• composing and presenting a handshape or signed poem on a theme such as friendship or a favourite hobby or place

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• creating a short film in Auslan that incorporates a storyline or cultural twist appropriate for a deaf audience
• create the next scene, a new character or an alternative ending for a signed fable, short story or cartoon
• creating the script for a role-play about future travel plans, or a best/worst holiday experience, and performing with partner, incorporating elements of tension, humour or emotion
• using VV to tell a simple story, incorporating close and distant focus

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.