AC9L1AU8C01 Years 7 to 8 Languages

Content descriptor initiate and sustain exchanges in familiar and unfamiliar contexts related to students’ experiences, feelings and opinions, adjusting their language in response to others

Elaborations

• • Elaboration using consistent patterning of fingerspelling for proper nouns and lexicalised fingerspelling, with DSs used more frequently to convey meaning
• • Elaboration participating in conversations with peers, using strategies to sustain interactions such as turn-taking, and asking for repetition, clarification or confirmation, for example, WHAT? PLEASE AGAIN Could you repeat that, please? STILL GO-AHEAD Go ahead … SO PRO2 SAY PRO1 FIX THAT? So, you want me to fix that?
• • Elaboration using persuasive language and NMFs to discuss topics of interest or present points of view, for example, PRO1 THINK SCHOOL UNIFORM GOOD BECAUSE ALL STUDENT ALIKE FEEL MATTER-NOT RICH POOR ALIKE I think school uniforms are good because they keep students equal, and it doesn’t matter if they are rich or poor.
• • Elaboration encouraging peers to join a conversation, using strategies to initiate and sustain discussion by providing the context of a conversation, for example, PRO3 SAY … She was saying that …
• • Elaboration using appropriate NMFs to enhance clear communication through backchannels and exclamations, for example, SURPRISE Oooh (with appropriate intonation) INCREDIBLE No way! UM um … HOLD … Hang on a minute …
• • Elaboration using evaluative language to acknowledge strengths in others’ arguments or to challenge others’ views in a courteous manner, for example, YEAH, PRO2 DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE. PRO1 NEVER THOUGHT Oh yeah, that’s a different take on it. I never thought about it that way. G:WELL YEAH, BUT PRO1 WANT ADD COMMENT Well, yes, that’s true but I’d like to add something.
• • Elaboration retelling events using time markers to sequence information, and using a variety of DSs to represent people, animals, transport and objects, for example, RECENT LUNCH, WHAT HAPPENED? WELL... What just happened at lunchtime was …

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• • Elaboration explaining or justifying an opinion using conditional statements such as if … then … or when, for example, PT+f COURT, FS:IF DS:PLACE-PERSON DEAF PERSON INCLUDE FS:JURY DS:PANEL PT+lf, MEANS DEAF PERSON FS:DEFENDANT PT+r FEEL PANEL VIEW EQUAL EVERYONE If there was a deaf person on the jury panel, then the defendant would feel more fairly heard.
• • Elaboration developing a set of instructions to encourage peers to use appropriate protocols outside the classroom with an unfamiliar audience, such as maintaining eye gaze, flashing lights, hand waving, for example, standing on a stage, waving hands to gain audience’s attention
• • Elaboration exchanging information appropriately in secure online interactions with deaf students from different schools, for example, using the raised hand function