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AC9L2AU8C04: Year 7 Languages Content Descriptor – Mediating meaning in and between languages
AC9L2AU8C04 Year 7 Languages

AC9L2AU8C04 – 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 and adjust signed, spoken and written language to convey meaning in a range of familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts

Elaborations

  • • interpreting simple interactions between deaf students or guests and non-signers
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    interpreting Auslan phrases and expressions that do not translate literally, identifying similar English expressions and considering possible consequences of lack of equivalence in terms of intercultural communication, for example,

    TRAIN GONE SORRY

    , or to ‘kick the bucket’

  • • translating simple filmed texts in Auslan into written English captions
  • • translating short English texts such as news items or own stories into Auslan, for review by their peers, noting any variations in choices and discussing possible reasons for these
  • • translating an Auslan version of a well-known text such as a song or story, considering why some words or expressions require a freer translation than others to achieve equivalence
  • • creating translations of English song lyrics or poetry for presentation in Auslan
  • • interpreting a theatre set sketch/picture from paper and signing it to a peer, describing the interior lay out of the room, using Auslan and integrating elements of space and DSs
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  • • analysing how elements of theatre performance such as emotional nuance are communicated through interpreters in a live setting
  • • discussing the possibility for both consecutive and simultaneous interpreting of information in communicative exchanges
  • • recognising that not all words and signs are semantically equivalent, identifying translations for English idioms such as ‘hit the hay’ and ‘raining cats and dogs’
  • • creating own simple gloss or annotations that show notations for using space, CAs, DSs and NMFs

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.