AC9L1AU8EU04 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.

recognise how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values

Elaborations

• 1 creating an instructive poster of a Deaf-friendly learning environment such as U-shape seating, plain background for online platform, minimising glare, appropriate lighting
• 2 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
• 3 defining Deafhood and how it shapes identity, acknowledging that there may be differences in definitions, and sharing views in a class discussion
• 4 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
• 5 identifying examples of deaf people’s visual orientation towards the world, such as using visual applause or being astute in reading body language
• 6 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
• 7 understanding diversity of choice in the use of assistive technologies, for example, hearing aids, captioning and speech recognition
• 8 reflecting on their expectations of learning Auslan and presenting their reflections in a printed or digital class journal
• 9 identifying examples of Deaf Gain such as Deaf community, culture and language, and keeping an online journal of their own perspectives

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