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AC9L2AU2U04: Year 1 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity
AC9L2AU2U04 Year 1 Languages

AC9L2AU2U04 – Year 1 Languages: Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity

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 people use language in ways that reflect cultural identity

Elaborations

  • • exploring the 'Deaf way’ such as the use of physical space to ensure signers can see each other, being able to communicate through windows or from a distance, and recognising the importance of facial expression, eye gaze and NMFs in conveying information in a visual-gestural language and culture
  • • exploring how deaf people use technology in ways that may be different from hearing people, for example, through the use of flashing door lights, vibrating alarm clocks and captions
  • • comparing aspects of their own lives with those of deaf children in their school or represented in digital images, video clips and stories, such as ways of playing games, telling stories or interacting at school, for example, comparing how the swimming-pool game ‘Marco Polo’ uses splashing instead of voice to attract attention when deaf children play together
  • • exploring symbols and language used by First Nations Australians and the Deaf community in a range of contexts, for example, finding out what the symbols on flags represent
  • • recognising the unique nature of signed languages and understanding that there are many different signed languages in use around the world, including in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities
  • • preparing a class poster, chart or calendar identifying languages used and cultural events celebrated by class and family members such as Auslan Day, National Week of Deaf People and national and international cultural celebrations relevant to the class
  • • noticing that deaf people value Auslan just as hearing people value their languages

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.