AC9L2AU6C04
Years 5 to 6
Languages
AC9L2AU6C04 | Years 5 to 6 Auslan: Mediating meaning in and between languages
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor apply strategies to interpret and convey meaning in familiar signed and visual cultural contexts
Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Communicating meaning in Auslan
Substrand
Mediating meaning in and between languages
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 5 to 6 Auslan · Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration reading and transcribing short, glossed texts, including indicating understanding that there are markings to show NMFs and spatial locations
- • Elaboration translating segments from popular children’s texts such as fairytales or short stories into Auslan, considering why some elements cannot be translated literally
- • Elaboration demonstrating the use of a bilingual online dictionary such as Signbank by looking up various meanings of a word, for example, ‘run’ and comparing variation in signs for the concept in different contexts, for example, BATH DS:HANDLING TAPS RUN To run the bath AND To run out of pens RUN WANT SCHOOL-CAPTAIN To run for school captain
- • Elaboration using resources such as Signbank to identify words which might not have a direct sign equivalent, for example, jewellery, pets and other collective nouns
- • Elaboration finding and using phrases that have direct translations between Auslan and English, for example, Goodnight or Happy birthday
- • Elaboration creating bilingual texts for younger children such as a digital Auslan-English dictionary of school-specific vocabulary or online vocabulary games
- • Elaboration shadowing a story in Auslan, noticing phrases and concepts which do not translate directly
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