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AC9L1AU10U01: Year 9 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L1AU10U01 Year 9 Languages

AC9L1AU10U01 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

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

apply features and conventions of sign production to extend fluency in response to a range of contexts, purposes and audiences

Elaborations

  • • applying path movements of signs, such as primary-path and local movements and secondary-repeated local movements during a path movement or when a hand is staying still
  • • using subtle NMFs to convey meaning effectively, such as a slightly raised eyebrow or quick eye-gaze change in a role-play or in narrating an event
  • • applying variation in handshapes and one-handed, 2-handed and double-handed signs
  • • identifying and keeping a class record of how signs are classed into 3 categories: manual, non-manual, multi-channel
  • • modifying pace and signing space for emphasis in different contexts such as a large group presentation or small group to share a secret
  • • applying signs with different levels of iconicity, for example, those that are fully transparent, translucent or arbitrary
  • • using different types of fingerspelling depending on the context, purpose and audience, for example, tactile fingerspelling and international forms of fingerspelling
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  • • exploring best-practice strategies for capturing partly-lexicalised signs for digital or online dictionaries or resources
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    applying knowledge of iconicity in signed languages, for example, how the path movement of a verb can show the timing of an action, for example,

    PRO1 WAIT DS:FAST-REPEAT PRO2,

    observing that English can do the same with changes to the length of words, for example, I've been waiting a loooooong time for you

  • • explaining the use of mouth morphemes to add meaning to a discourse, by commenting on a recorded interview in Auslan or signed news bulletin
  • • analysing and discussing a signer’s use of pausing in a signed description or information report and how it can modify the meaning of a signed phrase

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANAUSFLLF10Y910
Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 10, students contribute to and extend interactions in Auslan related to diverse contexts. They interpret and respond to texts by evaluating and synthesising information, ideas and perspectives. They show understanding of how features of language can be used to influence audience response. They create texts, selecting and manipulating language for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. They apply and use complex structures and language devices to enhance meaning and cohesion.Students apply features and conventions of Auslan and adjust signing to extend fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the conventions of texts and the connections between them. They apply knowledge of language structures and features to make and predict meaning. They support analysis of Auslan texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own cultural perspectives and identity, and draw on their experience of learning Auslan, to evaluate how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.