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AC9L1AU6C03 Years 5 to 6 Languages

AC9L1AU6C03 | Years 5 to 6 Auslan: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor locate and process information and ideas in a range of signed, visual and multimodal texts, and respond in different ways to suit purpose

First language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence

Strand
Communicating meaning in Auslan
Substrand
Mediating meaning in and between languages

This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 5 to 6 Auslan · First language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration viewing interviews or informal conversations between Auslan users in different situations and contexts, summarising key points and responding to this information, for example, interviewing a deaf adult about their educational experiences and comparing these with own experiences
  • • Elaboration researching topics using a range of sources such as interviews with Auslan speakers, films and websites to share the information in face-to-face or secure digital format in Auslan, for example, researching and presenting about recycling, the water cycle or the solar system
  • • Elaboration viewing a short news item or film clip in Auslan, about a topic such as a local community event, and describing or giving an opinion about the main aspects, for example, summarising a sports story video in Auslan
  • • Elaboration reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories in Auslan or English and comparing words, formulaic expressions and sentences
  • • Elaboration compiling and presenting information from a survey of peers and displaying results, such as surveying their family and analysing and presenting results through short signed presentations or in chart, graph or table form, for example, asking DEAF PEOPLE YOUR FAMILY HAVE, HOW MANY? How many deaf people do you have in your family?
  • • Elaboration comparing events from imaginative texts and making connections with experiences in their own lives, for example, reading a story about resilience and sharing their experiences of not feeling ‘heard’
  • • Elaboration viewing expressions of Deaf experience through different visual art forms such as painting, photography, sculpture and sign poetry, and comparing with their own use of visual forms of expression of feelings and experience
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  • • Elaboration reflecting on the experiences of Deaf dancers and choreographers involved in VV, for example, learning the types of ways contestants in popular shows have been able to access and make adjustments to participate in a hearing world
  • • Elaboration viewing Deaf performance activities, identifying how characters’ feelings and attitudes are expressed through NMFs
  • • Elaboration retelling or enacting or using DSs, focusing on the importance of eye gaze and role shift in CAs to emphasise key points/punchline of the joke
  • • Elaboration predicting the subsequent events of imaginative texts, for example, watching half of a story in Auslan and acting out a scenario of what might happen next

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