AC9L2AU10EU04 Year 9 Languages

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.

reflect on and explain how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values, and how these affect ways of communicating

Elaborations

• 1 considering culturally appropriate and ethical language when interacting with Deaf people, discussing vocabulary, phrases and expressions to be avoided
• 2 discussing the diversity of the Australian population, including Auslan users who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind and children of deaf adults (CODAs)
• 3 identifying examples of deaf people who have been recognised in Australian society, and discussing how such recognition contributes to broader awareness and value of Auslan, such as Alastair McEwin and Drisana Levitzke-Gray
• 4 reflecting on and explaining the protocols required to authentically co-create an Acknowledgement of Country/Place with a First Nations Australian, to present in Auslan to a group of Auslan-using visitors at a school assembly
• 5 reflecting on the impact of key events such as the Milan Congress in 1880 and the Signed English movement in the 1970s and 1980s on the education of deaf children, and developing a promotional video suggesting ways to further progress understanding
• 6 viewing signed news and other media texts, or presentations by Deaf people, reflecting on the ways attitudes and values in the wider community have changed towards Auslan in recent years, and the reasons for this evolution in perception and the increased positive profile
• 7 keeping a journal of memorable experiences associated with learning and using Auslan, noting insights gained into themselves as language users, for example, how they choose to use either Auslan or English in different contexts
• 8 promoting participation in community issues and programs, such as creating more green places and safe playgrounds, volunteering in aged care facilities or childcare centres, by contributing to a school secure blog
• 9 exploring the role of globalisation in terms of what technology offers signed languages in terms of maintaining their vitality and changing attitudes and values about signed languages, including the capacity for further advancements in technologies to store, record and share signed languages
• 10 understanding that knowledge about past and present Deaf people and cultural values are embodied in and transmitted through Auslan, for example, ways of producing the sign for SIGN embodies cultural meaning
• 11 reflecting on the role of Auslan interpreters in raising awareness and understanding of Auslan in the wider community, and considering ways in which they influence the function and nature of Auslan, for example, by the introduction of new words

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