AC9L1AU8EU04 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity

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.

Elaborations

• • creating an instructive poster of a Deaf-friendly learning environment such as U-shape seating, plain background for online platform, minimising glare, appropriate lighting
• • identifying themselves as members of different groups and describing their relationships with deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing students, family members, the larger Deaf community and wider ‘hearing’ world, for example, in a presentation to the class
• • defining Deafhood and how it shapes identity, acknowledging that there may be differences in definitions, and sharing views in a class discussion
• • reflecting on how First Nations Australians’ languages have strong connections to Country/Place and how these can be compared with language variation and sense of place and space in the Deaf community
• • identifying examples of deaf people’s visual orientation towards the world, such as using visual applause or being astute in reading body language
• • developing and annotating a timeline of key events, developments and reforms in the history of Auslan, and the impact of these on members of the Deaf community
• • understanding diversity of choice in the use of assistive technologies, for example, hearing aids, captioning and speech recognition

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: