1st
L (F–10) 5_6
Communicating
Identity
- Elaboration 11
- reflecting on and providing possible explanations for assumptions that
hearing people might make about deaf people or about signed languages
- examining some misconceptions about hearing people and culture held by members
of the Deaf community, for example, that hearing people hear and understand
everything, or that hearing people can hear from a distance
- identifying how various emotions and attitudes, such as respect, shyness,
exuberance or embarrassment, are expressed and may be perceived across different
languages and cultures, comparing their experience of such differences in their
own interactions with speakers of English or other spoken languages
- explaining how their assumptions about users of other languages and ways of
understanding the world are changing as a result of intercultural language and
experiential learning
- reflecting on language and cultural differences in forms of address in signed
and spoken languages that need to be taken into account when interacting
interculturally, for example, the frequent use of a person’s name when
addressing them directly in Australian English but not in Auslan
- reflecting on the role of personal storytelling in teaching and supporting
deaf children to navigate a hearing world