Core Skills Analysis
Languages — Auslan
Across more than 100 hours of Auslan classes over two years, AK developed sustained experience learning and using an Australian signed language. This extended study supported AK in building familiarity with visual and signed communication, where meaning is conveyed through features such as hand movement and facial expression. AK also gained an opportunity to engage with a language and its community over time, strengthening awareness that people communicate in diverse ways. The commitment to regular learning across two years reflected persistence and ongoing language development.
Tips
Tips — Keep Auslan active through short, regular practice: AK could learn and rehearse a small set of useful signs each week, then use them in a simple signed conversation with a classmate or family member. Create a visual vocabulary journal with drawings or photos, the sign’s meaning, and a sentence showing how it is used. Explore Auslan stories or community-created resources and discuss how facial expression and movement contribute to meaning. To connect language learning with everyday life, plan a brief signed introduction or presentation and reflect on which practice strategies helped AK communicate most clearly.
Learning Standards
- Australian Curriculum v9.0 — Languages (Auslan): The activity aligns broadly with sustained learning of an additional language and engagement with Auslan. The supplied Year 10 standards list does not include Auslan-specific content codes, so no code-level match can be confirmed from the information provided.
- AC9E10LA01 — English: The learning experience supports awareness that language shapes communication and inclusion; this is a related connection, rather than evidence that AK completed the specific English standard.
- AC9E10LY07 — English: Auslan learning provides a possible connection to multimodal communication and presentation. The activity description does not establish that AK planned or delivered a presentation.
Try This Next
- Visual vocabulary journal: illustrate or photograph signs AK is learning and add their meanings.
- Signed conversation challenge: prepare and record a short Auslan exchange using familiar vocabulary.
- Facial-expression study: practise how expression can contribute to meaning in a signed phrase.