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AC9L2AU8EC05: Year 7 Languages Content Descriptor – Creating text in Auslan
AC9L2AU8EC05 Year 7 Languages

AC9L2AU8EC05 – Year 7 Languages: Creating text in Auslan

Strand
Communicating meaning in Auslan
Substrand
Creating text 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

create signed, visual and multimodal informative and imaginative texts using modelled fingerspelling (FS), lexical signs, depicting signs (DSs), non-manual features (NMFs) and signing space

Elaborations

  • • recounting events from the weekend or a special occasion, demonstrating sequencing
  • • designing a multimodal presentation to explain home or school routines, or the events at a school camp or sports day
  • • sharing information from their home or local community using visual infographics or diagrams, for example, family traditions or cultural events
  • • creating an advertisement in Auslan to promote travel to a significant cultural First Nations Country/Place location, including what to see and do
  • • creating and comparing individual biographies, including elements such as family origins, traditions, beliefs and experiences, and considering how these influence their sense of identity
  • • re-enacting short stories or wordless animations that include 2 characters and their interactions, through the use of CAs and depiction
  • • creating a signed skit to tell a story, using a variety of NMFs, and without lexical signs
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  • • describing items of school equipment such as those used in woodwork, science or sports, and giving simple signed explanations of how they work
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    creating short sequences of signs using a fixed handshape, such as the index finger ‘point’, for example,

    PRO1 SEE PT+f SNAKE! DS:TRAVEL-ON-GROUND DS:WIND-UP-TOP-TREE

    I saw a snake on the ground over there. The snake then slithered across and up to the top of the tree.

  • • creating a signed music video clip or poem in Auslan based on a source text
  • • developing digital glossaries of new sign vocabulary, which can be used to share their personal learning with family members or as a resource

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.