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AC9L2AU4C04: Year 3 Languages Content Descriptor – Mediating meaning in and between languages
AC9L2AU4C04 Year 3 Languages

AC9L2AU4C04 – Year 3 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand
Communicating meaning in Auslan
Substrand
Mediating meaning in and between languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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

develop strategies to comprehend and adjust Auslan in familiar contexts to convey cultural meaning

Elaborations

  • • developing understanding of how deaf people modify space to maximise visual attention and adapt Auslan use and size of signing space when communicating in different physical environments such as in video chats or across a large yard
  • • identifying and comparing signs and words in Auslan and English versions of favourite stories, or songs, if appropriate, noticing how signs can represent concepts which might not have a direct match in English, and vice versa
  • • playing matching-pair games with Auslan sign-image flashcards and English flashcards, for example, matching cards associated with weather or animals
  • • creating captions in English for short recorded signed phrases
  • • creating bilingual texts for the classroom or school community, for example, posters, library displays or digital newsletter items, discussing how to represent meaning in each language, for different audiences
  • • recognising variation in adaptation of signing between different users of Auslan, for example, some people who are deafblind use hand-over-hand signing and tactile fingerspelling
  • • creating bilingual cards for use by younger children that include pictures, labels and signs, such as a transport-themed card game
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  • • learning to film themselves and analyse the video or to read simple glosses produced by the teacher, and understanding that the English word used is often not an exact match for the meaning of the sign
  • • participating in shared reading of purpose-developed Auslan-English texts and answering questions about unfamiliar signs, noticing word/sign matches and mismatches in the text

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 3 ASLANAUSSLLF10Y34
Year 3 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 4, students use Auslan to initiate structured interactions to share information related to the classroom and their personal worlds. They use familiar language to participate in activities that involve planning. They locate and respond to key items of information in texts, using strategies to help interpret and convey meaning in familiar contexts. They use modelled language and basic syntax, including familiar fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts. Students use modelled combinations of signs and demonstrate understanding that Auslan has language conventions and rules to create and make meaning. They identify patterns in Auslan and make comparisons between Auslan and English. They understand that Auslan is connected with culture and identity, and identify how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.