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AC9L2AU8C02: Year 7 Languages Content Descriptor – Interacting in Auslan
AC9L2AU8C02 Year 7 Languages

AC9L2AU8C02 – Year 7 Languages: Interacting in Auslan

Strand
Communicating meaning in Auslan
Substrand
Interacting in Auslan

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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

collaborate in activities that involve the language of transaction, negotiation and problem-solving to plan projects and events

Elaborations

  • • working in pairs or small groups to design and create visual resources that promote Auslan as an important area of study
  • • working collaboratively to create instructional or procedural texts for younger learners
  • • brainstorming, planning and working together to advertise and present an intercultural event for their year-level peers
  • • preparing for the visit of a member of the Deaf community, discussing how to ensure effective communication between the visitor and deaf and hearing members of the class
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    providing feedback on completed events or activities and exchanging reflections, for example,

    FIRST PRO1 DOUBT FS:IF WILL GO-WELL, HAVE-A-LOOK GO-GREAT

    At the start, I wasn’t sure it would work, but after a while I thought it went well.

    PRO1 WRONG NEVER AGAIN FS:DO SAME

    I won’t do that ever again.

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    problem-solving around collaborative activities such as model-building, using wh- questions, for example,

    WHY FAIL WHY?

    Why isn’t it working?

    WHO THINK CAN FIX?

    Who thinks they can fix it?

    FINISH, NEXT WHAT?

    What do we do next after we finish this?

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    giving directions for outdoor activities such as an obstacle course or bushwalk, including expressions such as

    HAVE DS:ROUND-OVAL FIRST RUN DS:DRAW-LINE THEN STOP. NEXT CLIMB DS:CLIMB-OVER DS:LAND-ON-FEET THEN CRAWL DS:CRAWL-UNDER-FLAT-THING

    There’s a big oval. First you will run along one side of it. Then stop at the wall. Next you will climb over the wall then crawl under the net.

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  • • investigating appropriate ways to join or take leave of a group interacting in Auslan and following appropriate protocols in interpreting situations outside the classroom, for example, in the playground
  • • sharing responsibility for providing information and context for a new participant joining a conversation

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANAUSSLLF10Y78
Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 8, students initiate and maintain interactions in Auslan in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to a range of interests and experiences. They use Auslan to negotiate solutions and adjust language in response to others. They interpret information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences between languages and in cultural contexts, by reorganising responses to suit context, purpose and audience. They select and use features of signing structures and expressions to create texts. Students apply the conventions of signing to enhance fluency. They demonstrate understanding that signed, visual and multimodal texts use different language conventions, structures and features to convey meaning. They comment on structures and features of Auslan text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how language, culture and identity are interconnected, and compare this with their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.