AC9L2AU10U03 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 evaluate Auslan texts, using metalanguage to analyse language structures and features

Elaborations

• 1

  presenting examples of Auslan signs that have changed over time due to changing experiences, for example, the sign for

  APPRENTICE

  modified to refer to

  TAFE

• 2 analysing specific types of text by identifying characteristic language features, for example, storytelling will contain more CAs and DSs than a formal presentation to the class
• 3 comparing how a range of emotions can be described through NMFs in Auslan narratives and through facial expressions in written English narratives
• 4 reviewing a videoed class debate to see how language is used to justify opinions and persuade others, in Auslan and English texts
• 5 conducting an in-depth analysis of a selected signed text, taking into account audience, purpose and topic to explain language choices made by the signer, for example, a persuasive text about the benefits of buying a second-hand car as a novice driver, rather than a new car
• 6 noticing how signers can compare or contrast ideas by locating things in the same or opposing signing space in Auslan to illustrate similarities and differences, and noting how this is handled in English
• 7 analysing the ways in which Auslan uses NMFs to link clauses and achieve textual cohesion, and compare with devices used in English to achieve similar cohesion
• 8 observing and comparing the features of poetry in Auslan and English in a familiar text, documenting the similarities and differences in rhythm, pace, stress and overall expression between the languages
• 9 evaluating how their knowledge and understanding of metalanguage has broadened through the study of Auslan and presenting their reflections is a signed monologue to teacher and peers

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