AC9L1AU4C04 – Year 3 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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.

Elaborations

• • noticing how signs can convey rich, multilayered meaning which might not have a direct match in English, for example, using only NMFs to convey how powerfully the big bad wolf blows down the houses in 'The Three Little Pigs’, or CAs to convey Jack’s focus and exertion in climbing the beanstalk in 'Jack and the Beanstalk'
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  comparing single signs and words that have direct matches to phrases in English, for example,

  GO-TO

  meaning to travel to/to attend/to go/to in English or more lexicalised words such as

  MOTHER, SCHOOL

• • identifying a list of non-equivalent Auslan sign/gestures used by deaf people that might be easily understood by hearing people, for example, head nodding and shaking, pointing to the wrist for time, shrugging shoulders for don’t know
• • creating a class signed translation of repeated lines in familiar children’s stories, such as 'We’re Going on a Bear Hunt', using DSs to show prepositions throughout the story
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  identifying the iconicity of some signs, such as

  SNORKELLING, SAILING

  , and noticing how similar they are to the object/referent, and how this helps with translating

• • translating English adjectives to Auslan, using SASSs, DSs and NMFs
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  exploring similarities and differences in Auslan dialects that differ in the northern regions (NSW, Qld and ACT) and southern regions (Vic, SA, WA, NT and Tas), such as

  ANIMAL

  or

  AFTERNOON

  , and colour signs

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: