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AC9L1AU8EC04: Year 7 Languages Content Descriptor – Mediating meaning in and between languages
AC9L1AU8EC04 Year 7 Languages

AC9L1AU8EC04 – 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

develop and begin to apply strategies to interpret, translate and convey meaning in Auslan in familiar contexts

Elaborations

  • • noticing how signs can convey rich, multilayered meaning which might not have a direct translation in English, for example, in stories
  • • noticing that simple phrases in English can be signed in several different ways
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    using online sign dictionaries to identify diverse meanings of words or concepts, for example, by reviewing the various meanings of the word run, and comparing the signed concepts

  • • using online dictionaries to assist with short translations of Auslan into English, and vice versa
  • • shadowing a simple story in Auslan and retelling it as a pre-interpreting skill to a different audience, noticing which phrases and concepts create more challenge than others
  • • translating simple filmed texts from Auslan to English, and adding captions
  • • translating short English texts such as news items or short speeches into Auslan, for review by their peers
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  • • exploring different types of communicating, such as the use of tactile signing, haptics and visual frames to convey meaning

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANAUSFLL7_10Y78
Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 8, students use Auslan language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions in exchanges using familiar gestures, questions and instructions. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, signed, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in Auslan or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, modelled grammatical structures, and familiar signs including fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts. Students use the parameters of signs and demonstrate understanding that Auslan has conventions and rules for signed communication. They comment on aspects of Auslan and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that Auslan is connected with culture and identity, and that this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.