AC9L2AU8EC04 Year 7 Languages

AC9L2AU8EC04 – 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

develop and begin to apply strategies to interpret, translate and convey meaning in Auslan in familiar contexts

Elaborations

• noticing how signs can convey rich, multilayered meaning which might not have a direct match in English, for example, in stories or fairytales
• noticing that simple phrases in English can be signed in several different ways
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demonstrating the use of online sign dictionaries, for example by reviewing the various meanings of the word ‘run’, and comparing the signed concepts
• using online dictionaries to assist with short translations of Auslan into English, and vice versa
• shadowing a simple story in Auslan and retelling it as a pre-interpreting skill to a different audience, noticing which phrases and concepts create more challenge than others
• translating simple filmed texts from Auslan to English, and adding captions
• translating short, simple written or spoken texts into Auslan, for example, instructions for a game or a procedure such as recipes

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• recording and translating into English some simple Auslan ‘identity stories’ filmed by members of the Deaf community

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.