AC9L2AU2C04 Year 1 Languages

AC9L2AU2C04 – Year 1 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in Auslan

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 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

notice that language carries cultural meaning in classroom-related greetings, introductions, instructions and routines

Elaborations

• creating a word wall or poster, comparing the iconicity of some simple signs in terms of their similarity to the object/referent, for example, drink, food, kangaroo
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explaining why they like a chosen sign or expression, for example,
DOG, CAT, BIRD
• making own bilingual Auslan-English picture dictionaries with labels, images or recordings of signs, for example, posters or cards with pictures to learn the signs for familiar objects, classroom items or daily activities
• noticing that in signed languages meaning can be expressed in different ways, for example, with signs or fingerspelling
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translating simple Auslan signs for peers, by fingerspelling or writing the English word, for example, distinguishing between signs and fingerspelled version of
DOG, CAT, BIRD,
and names, understanding that fingerspelling is a tool for translation between Auslan and English
• considering the meaning behind sign names if appropriate, indicating whether it is related to appearance, personality, a characteristic, story, habit or family

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 1 ASLANAUSSLLF10Y12

Year 1 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 2, students use Auslan to interact and share information related to the classroom and themselves. They use cues to respond to questions and instructions, and use simple formulaic language. They locate and convey key items of information in texts using non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They use familiar signs and modelled language, including some fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts. Students imitate the parameters of signs. They demonstrate understanding that Auslan has conventions and rules for signing. They give examples of similarities and differences between some features of Auslan and English. They understand that language is connected with culture and identity, and notice how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.