AC9L1AU8C03 Years 7 to 8 Languages

Content descriptor interpret and analyse information, ideas and opinions in a range of signed, visual and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

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• • Elaboration collecting and comparing information from a variety of signed sources to inform discussions on topics of interest
• • Elaboration categorising information in signed texts from the Deaf community and deaf-related organisations, such as emergency announcements or information, or advocacy texts
• • Elaboration following more complex procedural signed texts such as directions to follow in an unfamiliar environment, for example, at a school camp or on an excursion
• • Elaboration reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories in English or Auslan and responding to them in Auslan
• • Elaboration viewing live or recorded interviews or informal conversations between Auslan users in different situations and contexts, and analysing language features such as pace and pauses, use of space, signing space and NMFs
• • Elaboration researching information on a selected topic such as recycling or protecting the environment, and presenting information in a persuasive signed speech designed to invite action or support
• • Elaboration analysing examples of signed performance poetry, identifying patterns and conventions, such as repetition of handshapes and movement paths of signs to create rhyme and to convey meaning

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• • Elaboration evaluating Deaf performances or art forms that manipulate technology, and use colour and light to create special effects, for example, in performances by Ian Sanborn
• • Elaboration comparing their interpretations of or responses to performances by Deaf comedians, storytellers or poets