AC9L1AU10EU04 Year 9 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.

reflect on and explain how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values, and how these affect ways of communicating

Elaborations

• 1 considering culturally appropriate and ethical language when interacting with Deaf people, discussing vocabulary, phrases and expressions to be avoided
• 2 viewing footage of members of the Deaf community discussing identity and their experience of using sign language when growing up, and collating a biographical signed digital pamphlet of common and/or varying life journeys
• 3 considering the concepts of Deaf Gain, Deafhood, and explaining these concepts to hearing people
• 4 reflecting on and explaining the protocols required to authentically co-create an Acknowledgement of Country/Place with a First Nations Australian, to present in Auslan to a group of Auslan-using visitors at a school assembly
• 5 reflecting on the impact of key events such as the Milan Congress in 1880 and the Signed English movement in the 1970s and 1980s on the education of deaf children, and developing a promotional video suggesting ways to further progress understanding
• 6 preparing a presentation for the class or school assembly on the behaviours, rights, roles and responsibilities of the Deaf community in relation to the ownership and maintenance of Auslan
• 7 keeping a journal of memorable experiences associated with learning and using Auslan in and out of school, noting personal reactions and reflections over time and insights gained into themselves as language users
• 8 promoting participation in community issues and programs, such as creating more green places and safe playgrounds, volunteering in aged care facilities or childcare centres, by contributing to a school secure blog
• 9 exploring the role of globalisation in terms of what technology offers signed languages, including the capacity for further advancements in technologies to store, record and share signed languages
• 10 identifying behaviours, rights, roles and responsibilities in relation to the ownership and maintenance of Auslan and how such ownership rests with the Deaf community
• 11 analysing and discussing core cultural concepts reflected in Auslan, such as the collective nature of the Deaf community, respect for elders, the importance of reciprocity and responsibility, for example, the use of full titles in acknowledgements and forms of address when introducing an esteemed elder

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