2nd L (F–10) 7-8
Communicating
Reflecting - Elaboration 11
- reflecting on their interactions in Auslan and with Deaf culture, for
example, through face-to-face or online interactions with other Auslan learners
or deaf people, visits to Deaf community places and events or interactions with
visitors to the school, analysing these experiences in terms of their previous
or existing perceptions, understandings or attitudes
- analysing cultural assumptions they made prior to learning Auslan and
considering if these have changed through the experience of learning the
language and interacting with deaf people
- reflecting on the labels deaf and hearing, what these may mean to different
people and their implications in terms of status, access, opportunity and
privilege
- reflecting on the concepts of insider and outsider views of the Deaf community
and on their own position as second language learners of Auslan
- reflecting and reporting on how learning Auslan provides general insights into
the nature of language and culture and on how their assumptions about deaf
people and ways of reading the world are changing as a result of intercultural
language learning
- reflecting on general social attitudes and responses to differences in
behaviours or communicative styles, such as those that characterise
communication in Auslan
- reflecting on their identity as ‘second language learners’ and considering
whether the experience of learning an additional language/culture impacts on
their aspirations, career considerations or social-networking opportunities
- reflecting on how their own ways of communicating may be interpreted when
interacting with deaf people, and on the need to modify elements of their
behaviour, for example in relation to the use of eye contact, facial expression
or body language