1st
L (Yr 7 Entry) 9-10
Understanding
Language awareness
- Elaboration 6
- understanding that strong and healthy languages are those used by many
people across generations in most domains to communicate about most topics
- mapping the distribution of Auslan users across Australian states and
demographics, using data from censuses and other sources to present findings in
graph/visual representation forms
- exploring the vitality of different languages by obtaining information from
the UNESCO interactive online atlas and/or Ethnologue to compare numbers of
speakers/signers of different languages
- recognising that some languages have no written form and have historically
been passed on face to face/orally, making them less well recorded and
documented
- understanding that some languages used in Australia, such as English, have
large numbers of users, while others, such as many Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander languages, are endangered or in the process of being revived or
reclaimed
- describing the role religion has played in influencing the usage and spread of
Auslan, for example, through religious orders, early Deaf Societies and Bible
translation projects
- reflecting on the role of Auslan interpreters in raising awareness and
understanding of Auslan in the wider community, and considering ways in which
they influence the function and nature of Auslan, for example by the
introduction of neologisms
- identifying language documentation tools, such as ELAN, as important ways of
recording, transmitting and maintaining the vitality of a language
- recognising that languages may be perceived as ‘weak’ or ‘strong’ based on
community values and the existence of documentation and literature in the
language