1st
L (F–10) 5_6
Understanding
Role of language and culture
- Elaboration 7
- explaining the role of Auslan and Deaf culture in maintaining, reflecting
and strengthening the Deaf community and its networks and significant places
- understanding that knowledge about past and present Deaf people and cultural
experience and values is embodied in and transmitted through Auslan, for example
ways of producing the sign for SIGN reflects cultural values placed on fluency
- identifying the cultural importance of different elements of communication,
such as the use of signing space and proxemics by Auslan users, particularly in
relation to a person passing between two signers or the positioning of
communication partners
- identifying cultural differences between the use of personal names in Auslan
and other languages, such as the fact that Auslan signers do not use a person’s
name when addressing them directly as do users of many spoken languages
- recognising that different types of expressive and imaginative performance in
Auslan carry cultural as well as linguistic information, for example, a film or
theatrical performance that represents typical miscommunication experiences
- understanding that ‘sound’ is accessed differently in Deaf culture, that the
meaning and importance of sound in deaf people’s lives is usually not the same
as in hearing people’s experience
- exploring ways in which deaf people’s art incorporates sign language motifs
and images as forms of cultural expression
- analysing stories about deaf people’s history for the ways in which they
embody cultural values and information, for example accounts of Thomas Pattison,
FJ Rose and William Thomson establishing the first schools for deaf children