AC9L1AU6C04 Year 5 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

apply strategies to interpret and convey meaning in signed and visual cultural contexts

Elaborations

• 1 reading and transcribing glossed texts, including indicating understanding that there are markings to show NMFs and spatial locations
• 2

  identifying issues associated with translation, and the fact that meaning is not always literal, for example, where English uses the same word run for multiple contexts, Auslan will use different signs that vary according to the context

  RUN BATH DS:HANDLING TAPS

  To run the bath

  RUN-OUT PEN

  To run out of pens

  RUN SCHOOL-CAPTAIN

  To run for school captain

• 3

  identifying and explaining multiple lexicalised signs that are not easy to translate into English directly because of culture-specific meaning and history, for example,

  BA-BA

  and

  PAH

• 4 determining and translating the meaning of technical English words into Auslan with the support of fingerspelling patterns, using flow-shapes and rhythms
• 5 identifying non-equivalent Auslan signs/cultural conventions used in Deaf theatre, such as maintaining eye contact and positioning of characters
• 6 translating short texts with preparation, such as children’s fairy tales or a short imaginative film from English to Auslan
• 7

  understanding how to modify iconic signs to depict aspect and manner, for example,

  SWIM

  fast or

  SWIM

  slow, demonstrated through NMFs and speed

• 8

  understanding that not all words and expressions associated with figurative language are used in northern and southern dialect Auslan, for example, in Auslan

  TRAIN GONE, SORRY,

  and in English raining cats and dogs

• 9 composing bilingual texts in Auslan and English for class or school assembly performances, events or displays, for example, National Week of Deaf People announcements or constructing a bilingual webpage for the school website
• 10 comparing the differences between a child of deaf adults (CODA), interpreters, and their extended family’s sign name and identity-related signs used within the Deaf community, which differentiates individuals from others based on factors such as personality traits, physical characteristics, or notable skills
• 11 conducting sight/spontaneous translation, for example, from an Auslan video into simple English text such as a blog or newsletter, or from an English text translated into Auslan

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