AC9L1AU8C03 Year 7 Languages

AC9L1AU8C03 – Year 7 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in Auslan

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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.

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

Elaborations

• collecting and comparing information from a variety of signed sources to inform discussions on topics of interest
• categorising information in signed texts from the Deaf community and deaf-related organisations, such as emergency announcements or information, or advocacy texts
• 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
• reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories in English or Auslan and responding to them in Auslan
• 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
• 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
• 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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• 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
• comparing their interpretations of or responses to performances by Deaf comedians, storytellers or poets

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANAUSFLLF10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students initiate and maintain interactions in Auslan in familiar and unfamiliar contexts related to a range of experiences and perspectives. They use Auslan to negotiate solutions and adjust language in response to others. They interpret and analyse information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences between languages and in cultural contexts, by reorganising responses to suit context, purpose and audience. They select and use features of signing, structures and expressions, manipulating language to create texts.Students apply the conventions of signing to enhance fluency. They demonstrate understanding that signed, visual and multimodal texts use different language conventions, structures and features to convey meaning. They explain structures and features of Auslan text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how Auslan language, culture and identity are interconnected, and compare this with their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.