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AC9L2AU10EU01: Year 9 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L2AU10EU01 Year 9 Languages

AC9L2AU10EU01 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

Content Descriptor

apply features of Auslan sign production including handshape, orientation, location and movement (HOLM), and non-manual features (NMFs), and show how these are represented in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

  • • showing the importance of fluid patterns of fingerspelling, rather than speed
  • • using the various types and functions of NMFs, such as movements of the eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks, shoulders and body, to convey effective meaning in real or simulated scenarios, for example, in a class presentation or class debate on a favourite topic
  • • modifying pace for emphasis when presenting personal views on a topic of interest
  • • modifying dominant and non-dominant hands for effect or use one hand only to convey the same meaning as the original 2-hand sign
  • • using NMFs to modify verbs when enacting different types of movements, for example, tip-toe versus stomp
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    applying knowledge of iconicity, for example, how the path movement of a verb can show the timing of an action, for example,

    PRO1 WAIT DS:FAST-REPEAT PRO2,

    observing that English can do the same with changes to the length of words, for example, I've been waiting a loooooong time for you

  • • recognising multi-channel signs and showing that some signs can occur with a standard mouth gesture

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANAUSSLL7_10Y910
Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 10, students initiate and sustain interactions in Auslan to exchange and compare experiences and ideas about their own and others’ personal worlds. They communicate using non-verbal, signed and visual language to collaborate, plan and reflect on activities and events. They interpret and analyse information and ideas in texts and demonstrate understanding of different perspectives. They synthesise information and respond in Auslan or English, adjusting language to convey meaning and to suit context, purpose and audience. They use structures and features of Auslan, including fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts. Students apply features and conventions of signing to enhance communication. They select and apply knowledge of language structures and features to interact, make meaning and create texts. They support discussion of structures and features of texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their use of Auslan and their own cultural identity to discuss how these influence their ideas and ways of communicating.