AC9L2AU8U03 Year 7 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.

reflect on similarities and differences between Auslan and English language structures and features, using metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1 using metalanguage to communicate about features of Auslan such as talking about the use of fingerspelling, CAs, DSs and NMFs
• 2 commenting on how creating texts for different purposes results in differing types and amounts of signing, for example, the amount of fingerspelling used in a public announcement compared with a private conversation or the degree of influence from English in the conventions of a fairytale presented in Auslan
• 3 comparing instances of representation of direct and indirect speech in English texts and corresponding use of CA in Auslan
• 4 comparing texts created by 2 different signers on the same topic and evaluating the different choices they have made in terms of enacting through CAs or DSs
• 5

  commenting on the use of discourse markers and connectives such as

  BUT

  and

  G:WELL

  to create cohesive and coherent texts and compare how this is managed in English

• 6 reflecting on the effect of discourse markers such as linking words or phrases and space to show topic and information shifts in a description or information report
• 7 comparing Auslan and English dictionaries and how each language represents the elements of the language
• 8 presenting to the class some observations comparing iconicity in Auslan with the use of onomatopoeia in English
• 9 developing a chart showing variations in Auslan around Australia and differences between Auslan and other international sign languages

Related Achievement Standards