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AC9L2AU8U02: Year 7 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L2AU8U02 Year 7 Languages

AC9L2AU8U02 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
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.

Content Descriptor

apply understanding of grammatical structures and features to compose and respond to texts

Elaborations

  • • using locations for present referents, non-present referents, or abstract referents that do not exist in space
  • • creating a digital resource demonstrating that handshape and movement represent different things in each type of DS, for example, entity DS, handling DS and SASS DSs
  • • understanding when signers are using composite utterances, that is, those that have elements of CAs, DSs, points and fully-lexical signs in the same utterance
  • • using different functions of NMFs such as those used for questions (yes/no and wh- forms), statements, topicalisation, negation or conditional forms
  • • understanding instances of CA in a signed text on video, and recording the time marker for when it occurs, and providing suggestions for why it has been used at that point
  • • recognising that nouns can be pluralised by locating them repeatedly regardless of their original location
  • • practising the use of citation form of plain verbs and indicating verbs change when depicting more than 2 people
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  • •

    identifying when and how some verbs and nouns use the same sign but change the movement in a regular way making noun-verb pairs, such as

    SCISSORS

    versus

    CUT-WITH-SCISSORS

    , intensifying adjectives through the use of NMFs such as

    HOT

    , signing with great emphasis, and depicting wide-eyed expression for

    EXTREMELY HOT

    , or signing

    TOUGH

    with great exertion to show

    VERY TOUGH

  • • understanding that signers may include linguistic and gestural elements in a clause, that is, signers can tell, show or do both simultaneously, using a combination of lexicalised signs and CAs, DSs, NMFs and space
  • •

    recounting events using conjunctions with separate signs as discourse markers such as

    THEN, ANYWAY, FS:SO, PLUS, NEXT

    , or by NMFs, for example, by pausing between clauses or clasping hands

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.