AC9L1AU8U01 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language

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

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

  local movement –

  HAVE,

  path movement –

  DAY

  (sideways)

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

• • applying the fluid patterns of fingerspelling rather than speed, and the use of exaggerated fingerspelling for emphasis, for example, when clarifying a name

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: