AC9L1AU8C04
Years 7 to 8
Languages
AC9L1AU8C04 | Years 7 to 8 Auslan: Mediating meaning in and between languages
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor interpret and adjust signed, visual and written language to convey meaning in a range of familiar and unfamiliar cultural contexts
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 7 to 8 Auslan · First language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration exploring the translation of popular English idioms and phrases with non-compositional meaning, for example, ‘It's raining cats and dogs’
- • Elaboration considering why one language may use more words/signs than another to convey meaning, for example, when Auslan uses spatial concepts or DSs
- • Elaboration considering approaches to interpreting, such as simultaneous or consecutive, and the uses of each approach
- • Elaboration analysing the translation of Auslan poems or short stories into English captions, with a focus on how people’s appearance and movements are described
- • Elaboration exploring the role of Deaf interpreters and differences between Deaf interpreters and hearing Auslan-English interpreters and how they use NMFs to depict aspect and manner
- • Elaboration exploring different types of communicating and interpreting, such as the use of tactile signing, haptics and visual frames
- • Elaboration analysing how elements of creative performance, such as translation choices, are communicated through interpreters in a live setting such as music concerts or theatre events
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- • Elaboration transcribing part of a text using glossing, including the signs and NMFs used
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