AC9L2AU8EC02 Year 7 Languages

AC9L2AU8EC02 – 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

engage in modelled signed and visual exchanges with peers to organise activities related to daily life and school environment

Elaborations

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giving and following instructions for class routines, for example,
WE PLAY GAME. PLEASE STAND UP
We’re going to play a game; please stand up.
PT+C LOOK-AT PRO1
Eyes to the front.
PLEASE WITH TWO
Please find a partner.
DS:TAP-ON-SHOULDER
Get attention of person next to you.
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giving and following directions or instructions in sequential order, using ordinal numbers and list buoys, for example,
BUOY:(1)PAPER LBUOY:(2)DRAW-CIRCLE LBUOY:(3)COLOUR
Firstly, get some paper. Secondly, draw a circle. Then colour it in.
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negotiating turn-taking in activities and discussions, for example,
POSS1 TURN FIRST POSS2-TURN
It’s my turn first, then your turn.
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discussing roles and responsibilities that involve organising, negotiating and prioritising tasks, such as devising an activity or game for the class, for example,
DEAF HISTORY PROJECT AGREE, MAKE LBUOY(1):PRESENTATION LBUOY(2):GAME
For the Deaf history project, I agree, we will make a presentation, then a game.
PRO2 TYPE PRO1 WRITE
You type and I’ll write.
• participating in games, activities or role-plays such as enacting scenarios involving being lost and asking for or giving directions, or playing 'Sign circle' to practise new vocabulary or passing on a sign shape
• exchanging information about daily activities and individual schedules to determine agreed date/time for an event
• reviewing peer work in pairs, providing feedback and encouragement or praise on aspects and features of the signed text

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• considering adaptations to Auslan use when communicating in different physical environments such as across a large yard, or when one or both hands are occupied, for example, variations in vocabulary, size of signing space, clarity of signs, use of fingerspelling and NMFs
• managing visual noise such as background, glare from windows, filming and online protocols regarding signing space on camera

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANAUSSLL7_10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students use Auslan language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions in exchanges using familiar gestures, questions and instructions. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, signed, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in Auslan or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, modelled grammatical structures, and familiar signs including fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space, to create texts. Students use the parameters of signs and demonstrate understanding that Auslan has conventions and rules for signed communication. They comment on aspects of Auslan and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that Auslan is connected with culture and identity, and that this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.