AC9L1AU8EC04 Year 7 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 noticing how signs can convey rich, multilayered meaning which might not have a direct translation in English, for example, in stories
• 2 noticing that simple phrases in English can be signed in several different ways
• 3

  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

• 4 using online dictionaries to assist with short translations of Auslan into English, and vice versa
• 5 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
• 6 translating simple filmed texts from Auslan to English, and adding captions
• 7 translating short English texts such as news items or short speeches into Auslan, for review by their peers
• 8 exploring different types of communicating, such as the use of tactile signing, haptics and visual frames to convey meaning

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