AC9L2AU8U01 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language

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.

Elaborations

• • understanding that signs can be iconic such as representing a whole or part object and that there are degrees of iconicity, including fully transparent, translucent, and those that are not iconic, and are considered opaque or arbitrary
• • understanding that different handshape and movement rules apply in the production of double-handed signs such as BOOK, LANGUAGE and how these signs move compared with 2-handed signs such as THEATRE, CULTURE
• • demonstrating the various types of NMFs, including movements of the eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, cheeks, shoulders and body, and describing their function
• • applying the ability to swap hand dominance and anchor either the dominant or subordinate hand for a purpose
• • modifying pace for emphasis in familiar contexts such as when recounting an event
• • applying consistent patterning and emphasis used in both lexicalised and non-lexicalised fingerspelling
• •

  applying minimal pairs from a series of teacher-provided examples, for example, the signs for

  WORK

  and

  TALK

  are identical in orientation, movement and location but different handshape whereas the signs for

  BEAUTIFUL

  and

  WELL

  differ in location

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: