AC9L2AU8C03 Year 7 Languages

AC9L2AU8C03 – Year 7 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in Auslan

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between languages

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

interpret information, ideas and opinions in a range of signed, visual and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• viewing signed texts such as media reports on activities such as Deaf sports or festivals and events in the Deaf community, and providing an overview of different perspectives presented
• researching signed texts such as interviews or videos to select information needed to prepare a signed presentation on a particular event or person
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interviewing older members of Deaf families or Deaf communities and reporting back to the class about any differences in signing they noticed such as more use of fingerspelled words, less use of DSs and NMFs, or the use of different signs such as
FILM
(old sign),
TOILET
(old sign)
• reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories in English or Auslan and responding to them in Auslan
• analysing online profiles and news stories about high-profile members of the Deaf community such as Colin Allen, Dr Breda Carty or Dr Robert Adam, and presenting a review of media representation
• viewing and responding to signed poetry from around the world and noting differences and similarities in VV approaches
• evaluating one signed story presented by 2 deaf people and noting the variation in NMFs and manner, and how feelings and attitudes are expressed by signers

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• evaluating Deaf performances or art forms that use technology, colour or imagery for deliberate visual effect, to express the Deaf experience such as the De’VIA movement, and preparing a response outlining the differences between Deaf art and De’VIA, and what makes De’VIA important to Deaf culture
• identifying and profiling deaf artists who make use of music and other art forms
• comparing visual elements of signed media texts with those of equivalent texts produced for a hearing audience
• exploring the concept of metaphorical iconicity used in poems and narratives, for example, by shadowing selected elements

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.