2nd 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 reflect cultural values placed on fluency
- identifying the cultural importance of 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 to the positioning of communication
partners
- identifying cultural differences in the use of personal names in Auslan and
their own background language, such as the fact that Auslan signers do not use a
person’s name sign 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
between deaf and hearing people
- reflecting on the ways culture is interpreted by others, for example by
identifying how stereotypes about deaf and hearing people influence perceptions
- understanding that ‘sound’ is accessed differently in Deaf culture, that the
meaning and importance of sound in deaf people’s lives is not the same as in
hearing people’s experience