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AC9L2AU10U03: Year 9 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L2AU10U03 Year 9 Languages

AC9L2AU10U03 – 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

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

Elaborations

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    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

  • • 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
  • • comparing how a range of emotions can be described through NMFs in Auslan narratives and through facial expressions in written English narratives
  • • reviewing a videoed class debate to see how language is used to justify opinions and persuade others, in Auslan and English texts
  • • 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
  • • 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
  • • 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
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  • • 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
  • • 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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANAUSSLLF10Y910
Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 10, students contribute to and extend interactions in Auslan in increasingly unfamiliar contexts related to a wide range of interests and issues. They interpret and respond to texts by evaluating and synthesising information, ideas and perspectives. They show understanding of how features of language can be used to influence audience response. They create texts, selecting and manipulating language for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. They use complex structures to enhance meaning and cohesion. Students apply features and conventions of Auslan and adjust signing to extend fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the conventions of texts and the connections between them. They apply knowledge of language structures and features to make and predict meaning. They support analysis of Auslan texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own cultural perspectives and identity, and draw on their experience of learning Auslan to evaluate how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.