AC9L1AU8U03 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.

reflect on similarities and differences between Auslan and English language structures and features, using metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1

  recording and sharing examples of how languages expand to include new signs and expressions due to influences such as technologies and digital media, for example,

  COMPUTER, MOUSE (COMPUTER), INTERNET, WI-FI, SELFIE

• 2 discussing how signers can compare or contrast ideas by locating things in the same or opposing sides of signing space, and how this compares with English
• 3

  evaluating the production of reciprocal forms of some indicating signs, such as

  LOOK, GIVE

  and

  INVITE

  , and comparing this with how it is expressed in English

• 4 developing a chart or poster comparing DSs with English adjectives, such as a small, sleek, new car or a large, battered, old ute
• 5 comparing Auslan and English dictionaries and how each language is represented, for example, nouns, adjectives and verbs
• 6 explaining how sign languages borrow from each other due to technology, for example, signs that refer to different nations, states and cities around the globe, and the ASL vehicle handshape in DSs
• 7 comparing commonly used metalanguage in Auslan and English, and explaining similarities and differences in the terms used
• 8 using metalanguage to communicate about features of Auslan, such as talking about the use of fingerspelling, CAs, DSs and NMFs
• 9

  comparing expressions of periods and sequences of time in Auslan and English, for example,

  FORWARD WEEK(TWO)

  In 2 weeks

  LONG-AGO

  A long time ago

  FIRST-LAST

  First to last

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