AC9L2AU8U04 Year 7 Languages

AC9L2AU8U04 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity

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

reflect on and explain how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs, and values, and how these impact on communication

Elaborations

• exploring the impact of personal biography on identity and communication with peers, including family origins, traditions, beliefs, practices, interests and experiences, and creating a visual representation with signed captions
• reflecting on how contemporary values about technology impacts young people and their use of language in Auslan, and in written English formats
• presenting to the class or school assembly on the impact of learning Auslan on their perceptions, understanding and attitudes towards Deaf culture and people
• reflecting on how First Nations Australians’ languages have strong connections to Country/Place and how these can be compared with language variation and sense of place and space in the Deaf community
• explaining the relationship between culture, ways of thinking, and language, and comparing the cultural concept of Deaf identity with own concept of identity
• explaining how the visibility of signers in the media and communication has increased awareness of the Deaf community
• researching and presenting profiles of the roles, influences and/or achievements of Deaf organisations, leaders and individuals in the Deaf community, in advocating for the Deaf community

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• reflecting on how school events such as ‘International Day’ or ‘Harmony Day’ raise awareness of the diversity of languages and cultures represented in their school
• analysing how concepts related to cultural practices and identity are valued, for example, by identifying elements of naming systems such as the use of pointing, NMFs and name signs
• researching the status and recognition of signed languages in other countries, considering issues such as language rights, documentation and development efforts

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.