AC9L2AU6U04
Years 5 to 6
Languages
AC9L2AU6U04 | Years 5 to 6 Auslan: Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor recognise that language reflects cultural practices, values and identity, and that this impacts on communication
Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity
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 recognising that using Auslan impacts on the cultural experiences, perspectives and identity of Deaf and hard of hearing people
- • Elaboration preparing a presentation on the use of Auslan in the wider community, for example, in news broadcasts, live theatre and emergency announcements, the visibility of Auslan-English interpreters and Deaf interpreters
- • Elaboration exploring how different technologies are used by deaf people to support social and community networks including direct or mediated communication through the use of interpreters
- • Elaboration exploring, in Auslan or English, how language and culture are expressed through First Nations Australians’ song, dance or artworks, considering similarities and differences with an aspect of the cultural expressions of the Deaf community
- • Elaboration investigating the signed languages used by deaf and hard of hearing members of First Nations Australians’ communities
- • Elaboration identifying the diversity of the Australian population, including Auslan users who are deaf, deafblind, those who are hard of hearing and hearing people such as a child of deaf adult (CODA) and interpreters
- • Elaboration describing how Auslan has been passed down through generations, including that Auslan is often passed on through schools and social settings rather than from parents, and how it has been recorded, for example, video footage
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- • Elaboration recognising that the ownership of Auslan rests with the Deaf community who are the Custodians of the language and that signs evolve naturally
- • Elaboration researching and presenting a biography, profile or pictorial report on people or places significant to the Deaf community, for example, Eugene Salas and the original South Australian Deaf Society/Mission building
- • Elaboration identifying sign language use around the world using data from Ethnologue, for example, by identifying and labelling countries on a world map with correct naming of the sign language used, such as France = LSF
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