AC9L1AU8U04 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 and explain how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values, and how these impact on communication

Elaborations

• 1 reflecting on identity and their experience of sign language use when growing up
• 2 discussing examples of how increased use of Auslan has positively changed mainstream society’s understanding and perception of the Deaf community
• 3 reflecting on the concepts of Deaf Gain, Deafhood and different perspectives of various people in the Deaf community.
• 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 considering cultural explanations for conversational strategies used by Auslan signers to avoid conflict and to maintain privacy, for example, changing signing space and style, using indirect language such as signing lower or under the table, or fingerspelling instead of signing
• 6 creating an annotated timeline of key events in the education of deaf children, such as the Milan Congress in 1880 and the Signed English movement in the 1970s and 1980s, and presenting on how the attitudes, identity and values of Auslan were influenced and shaped
• 7 discussing the diversity of the Australian population, including Auslan users who are deaf, hard of hearing, Deafblind and/or a child of deaf adults (CODA)
• 8 researching and presenting profiles of deaf people who have been recognised in wider Australian society such as Dr Alastair McEwin AM or Drisana Levitzke-Gray, and identifying how such recognition contributes to broader awareness and value of Auslan
• 9 analysing ways in which deaf people’s jokes and humorous narratives reflect cultural values about deaf/hearing relationships and how deaf people navigate the world
• 10 explaining ways in which deaf people interpret cultural meanings of sound and reactions to sound, for example, a door slamming
• 11 reflecting on how international sign choice is established, for example, for congresses such as World Federation of the Deaf (WFD), the number of participants from different language families is taken into account

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