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Content description VCASFC047

Auslan: First Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 5 and 6 / Communicating / Identity
Content description
Reflect on how different language and cultural backgrounds and experiences influence perceptions of Auslan and of the Deaf community and also of the hearing community
Elaborations
  1. reflecting on and providing possible explanations for assumptions that hearing people might make about deaf people or about signed languages
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. reflecting on the role of personal storytelling in teaching and supporting deaf children to navigate a hearing world
Code
VCASFC047
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