Auslan: First Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 9 and 10 / Communicating / Socialising
Content description
Use interactions within the school and wider community to build relationships and to discuss personal aspirations or social issues
Elaborations
competing in inter-class or inter-school debates, using appropriate conventions and protocols to support or oppose a proposition, for example, using space and NMFs to contrast views
contributing to exchanges with peers and teachers when discussing their personal, educational and professional future wishes
participating in role-plays on social and cultural issues, for example, the role of interpreters or the impact of social media
communicating using digital technologies to chat with a student from another school, for example about the influence of ‘text talk’ and social media on Auslan, such as the use of signs for LOL, WHATEVER
participating in a whole-school forum on current school or community issues
communicating via video calls or social media platforms with other deaf children in different contexts to build relationships and exchange views on topics of mutual interest
using strategies to initiate and sustain discussion, for example by providing the context of a conversation to new participants:
