AC9L1AU8U01 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.

apply knowledge of conventions of sign production to enhance fluency, and respond to and create texts in familiar and unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

• 1

  identifying and applying movements of signs, such as local and path movements, for example,

  local movement –

  HAVE,

  path movement –

  DAY

  (sideways)

• 2 applying the various types and functions of NMFs, such as movements of the eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks, shoulders and body
• 3 using DSs that represent a whole object or part of an object such as the body or the legs
• 4 modifying dominant and non-dominant hands for effect or using one hand only to convey the same meaning as the original 2-hand sign
• 5 understanding and applying the need to modify pace for emphasis, in familiar and unfamiliar texts, such as when recounting an exciting event
• 6

  understanding that the elements of a sign can be arbitrary, such as the handshape or movement of the sign

  WHY,

  or that the handshape and movement may be meaningful, such as in the sign

  GIVE

• 7 applying the fluid patterns of fingerspelling rather than speed, and the use of exaggerated fingerspelling for emphasis, for example, when clarifying a name
• 8 recognising that Auslan has fully-lexical signs that may be found in the dictionary, and standard HOLM and partly-lexical signs that cannot be listed in a dictionary in all forms, for example, when gesture changes the form each time they are signed
• 9 comparing the production of a signed discourse with and without mouth morphemes

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