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AC9L2AU6C04: Year 5 Languages Content Descriptor – Mediating meaning in and between languages
AC9L2AU6C04 Year 5 Languages

AC9L2AU6C04 – Year 5 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

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

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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

apply strategies to interpret and convey meaning in familiar signed and visual cultural contexts

Elaborations

  • • reading and transcribing short, glossed texts, including indicating understanding that there are markings to show NMFs and spatial locations
  • • translating segments from popular children’s texts such as fairytales or short stories into Auslan, considering why some elements cannot be translated literally
  • •

    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

  • • using resources such as Signbank to identify words which might not have a direct sign equivalent, for example, jewellery, pets and other collective nouns
  • • finding and using phrases that have direct translations between Auslan and English, for example, Goodnight or Happy birthday
  • • creating bilingual texts for younger children such as a digital Auslan-English dictionary of school-specific vocabulary or online vocabulary games
  • • shadowing a story in Auslan, noticing phrases and concepts which do not translate directly

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASLANAUSSLLF10Y56
Year 5 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 6, students initiate and use strategies to maintain interactions in Auslan that are related to their immediate environment. They collaborate in activities that involve the language of planning and problem-solving to share information, preferences and ideas. They use strategies to locate and interpret information and ideas in texts, and demonstrate understanding by responding in Auslan or English, adjusting their response to context, purpose and audience. They create texts, selecting and using a variety of signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing spaces. They sequence information and ideas, and use conventions appropriate to text type. Students apply rules of signs, pace and signing space to develop fluency. They use modelled structures when creating and responding in Auslan. They compare language structures and features in Auslan and English, using some metalanguage. They show understanding of how some language reflects cultural practices and consider how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.