NZSL
[ Video Resource ]
- Title: Achievement Standard 1.2
- Description: NZSL AS 1.2, including all Explanatory Notes
- Video Duration: 8 minutes
- Video URL: https://player.vimeo.com/video/840683351
- Transcript: This video is a translation in New Zealand Sign Language of Achievement Standard 1.2.
This video is a translation in New Zealand Sign Language of Achievement Standard 1.2.
Purpose
Achievement Criteria
Explanatory Note 1
Communicate in New Zealand Sign Language in relation to a cultural context involves:
- using language to express information, ideas, and opinions relevant to the context
- referring to events or experiences in the present, as well as the past or future
- achieving overall communication despite inconsistencies.
Communicate capably in New Zealand Sign Language in relation to a cultural context involves:
- using a range of language
- building on aspects of the information, ideas, and opinions expressed
- achieving communication that is not significantly hindered by inconsistencies.
Communicate skilfully in New Zealand Sign Language in relation to a cultural context involves:
- using a range of language successfully
- connecting information, ideas, and opinions cohesively
- achieving communication that is not hindered by inconsistencies.
Explanatory Note 2
Language refers to vocabulary, formulaic expressions, and sentence structures that are used to share information, ideas, and opinions in relation to personal matters, events, or experiences relevant to the student and the student’s culture(s) and identities.
A range of language refers to showing evidence of variety in language use.
Examples include:
- breadth in vocabulary use
- using different sentence types, including basic and complex sentences
- coverage of different communicative functions appropriate to the context (for example, simple description, instructions, sequencing).
Using a range of language successfully involves demonstrating consistent mastery of quality language appropriate to the level and chosen context.
Examples include:
- generally accurate production of language overall
- well-chosen and varied vocabulary and structures
- controlled use of New Zealand Sign Language sentence structures.
Explanatory Note 3
Connecting information, ideas, and opinions cohesively involves:
- linking information, ideas, and opinions effectively within the points communicated and across the piece of communication as a whole
- showing logical flow or coherent structure.
Explanatory Note 4
Cultural contexts refer to events or experiences that are relevant to New Zealand Sign Language and Deaf culture. Students may connect New Zealand Sign Language and Deaf culture to cultural practices that are of significance to them.
Explanatory Note 5
When communicating in New Zealand Sign Language, inconsistencies are mistakes which affect overall communication or clarity of message.
Examples include:
- sign choice
- accuracy of signs
- grammar (including syntax, signing space, facial expressions, body language).
Shared Explanatory Note
This achievement standard is intended to assess students who are acquiring skill in New Zealand Sign Language. The level it describes is designed to be accessible to those who only begin formal study of the language in junior secondary school.
Refer to the NCEA glossary for Māori, Pacific, and further subject-specific terms and concepts.
Conditions of Assessment
[ Video Resource ]
- Title: Achievement Standard 1.2 Conditions of Assessment
- Description: NZSL AS 1.2 Conditions of Assessment
- Video Duration: 3 minutes
- Video URL: https://player.vimeo.com/video/840691426
- Transcript: This video is a translation in New Zealand Sign Language of the Conditions of Assessment for Achievement Standard 1.2.
This video is a translation in New Zealand Sign Language of the Conditions of Assessment for Achievement Standard 1.2.
The evidence submitted for this Achievement Standard may not also be submitted for AS 92355 (1.1) Interact in New Zealand Sign Language to share and respond to information, ideas, and opinions.
Submissions should consist of one student-generated piece of work to communicate in New Zealand Sign Language in relation to a cultural context. Selection of evidence for submission is to be carried out by the student.
The submission may consist of evidence involving one or more people, but students will be assessed individually. Where a collaborative approach to collecting evidence is used, assessors must ensure that each student has met the requirements of the Standard individually.
Assessor involvement during the assessment event is limited to providing students with feedback on the technical aspects of their work only, for example, formatting, design, visual, and image quality. Assessors must not provide feedback on student language.
Assessors must ensure that students are only assessed based on the quality of language.
Students may not:
- copy language from any source
- use any digital language tools (for example, translators) other than dictionaries
- have anyone else point out errors, edit, or correct their work before handing it in for assessment.
Useful Pages
Unpacking the Standard
[ Video Resource ]
- Title: Achievement Standard 1.2 Unpacking
- Description: NZSL AS 1.2 Unpacking
- Video Duration: 7 minutes
- Video URL: https://player.vimeo.com/video/872687624
- Transcript: This video is a translation in New Zealand Sign Language of the Unpacking of Achievement Standard 1.2.
This video is a translation in New Zealand Sign Language of the Unpacking of Achievement Standard 1.2.
Mātauranga Māori constitutes concepts and principles that are richly detailed, complex, and fundamental to Māoridom. It is important to remember that the practice of these are wider and more varied than their use within the proposed NCEA Achievement Standards and supporting documentation.
We also recognise that the cultures, languages, and identities of the Pacific Islands are diverse, varied, and unique. Therefore the Pacific concepts, contexts, and principles that have been incorporated within NCEA Achievement Standards may have wide-ranging understandings and applications across and within the diversity of Pacific communities. It is not our intention to define what these concepts mean but rather offer some ways that they could be understood and applied within different subjects that kaiako and students alike can explore.
The intent of the Standard
This Achievement Standard assesses the student’s ability to communicate information, ideas, and opinions in New Zealand Sign Language in relation to a cultural context. Students will express their own views in their chosen format. Students are encouraged to explore different ways of communication that consider the context, purpose, and audience of their work. This inclusive and flexible way of assessment is reflective of how people communicate in an authentic setting.
The nature of this Standard allows students to reflect on their own identities and engage with cultural conventions and practices where appropriate, for example, delving into the history of, and celebrating New Zealand Sign Language and Deaf culture. This will build students’ language skills and cultural competencies. Students are encouraged to draw from their own kete of cultural knowledge and experiences, and use New Zealand Sign Language to express information, ideas, and opinions that are meaningful to them. Students are also encouraged to learn from and include the knowledge and experiences of their family to embark on a journey of collective language learning and cultural exploration.
Encouraging students to express their own views in New Zealand Sign Language builds their capability to communicate information, ideas, and opinions confidently and independently. This may empower students to continue communicating about topics of significance to them in any language.
This Achievement Standard draws on all of the Big Ideas and several pieces of the Significant Learning:
- be exposed to, practise, and enjoy experimenting with a wide range of visual-gestural New Zealand Sign Language
- build a growing awareness of the cultural integrity, authenticity, and vitality of New Zealand Sign Language and its status as an official and threatened language
- explore how language and culture affect, and work together in, communication
- participate in activities which use, promote, and celebrate New Zealand Sign Language, including Māori and Pacific contexts
- engage with the histories, beliefs, behavioural norms, and practices of Deaf people in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Making reliable judgements
The Achievement Standard supports the student’s learning development and evaluates their linguistic proficiency in an authentic context. This reflects the idea that language acquisition requires working with an emerging skill set rather than demonstrating perfection.
Collecting evidence
The evidence submitted for this Achievement Standard may not also be submitted for AS 92355 (1.1) Interact in New Zealand Sign Language to share and respond to information, ideas, and opinions.
The evidence for this Achievement Standard will be one student-generated piece about everyday contexts which must be presented in New Zealand Sign Language.
Assessors must follow the Conditions of Assessment for collection of evidence.
Possible contexts
Cultural contexts refer to events or experiences that are relevant to New Zealand Sign Language and Deaf culture. Students may connect New Zealand Sign Language and Deaf culture to cultural practices that are of significance to them. The cultural context should be selected by the student with teacher guidance where appropriate.
Mātauranga Māori constitutes concepts and principles that are richly detailed, complex, and fundamental to Māoridom. It is important to remember that the practice of these are wider and more varied than their use within the proposed NCEA Achievement Standards and supporting documentation.
We also recognise that the cultures, languages, and identities of the Pacific Islands are diverse, varied, and unique. Therefore the Pacific concepts, contexts, and principles that have been incorporated within NCEA Achievement Standards may have wide-ranging understandings and applications across and within the diversity of Pacific communities. It is not our intention to define what these concepts mean but rather offer some ways that they could be understood and applied within different subjects that kaiako and students alike can explore.
The intent of the Standard
This Achievement Standard assesses the student’s ability to communicate information, ideas, and opinions in New Zealand Sign Language in relation to a cultural context. Students will express their own views in their chosen format. Students are encouraged to explore different ways of communication that consider the context, purpose, and audience of their work. This inclusive and flexible way of assessment is reflective of how people communicate in an authentic setting.
The nature of this Standard allows students to reflect on their own identities and engage with cultural conventions and practices where appropriate, for example, delving into the history of, and celebrating New Zealand Sign Language and Deaf culture. This will build students’ language skills and cultural competencies. Students are encouraged to draw from their own kete of cultural knowledge and experiences, and use New Zealand Sign Language to express information, ideas, and opinions that are meaningful to them. Students are also encouraged to learn from and include the knowledge and experiences of their family to embark on a journey of collective language learning and cultural exploration.
Encouraging students to express their own views in New Zealand Sign Language builds their capability to communicate information, ideas, and opinions confidently and independently. This may empower students to continue communicating about topics of significance to them in any language.
This Achievement Standard draws on all of the Big Ideas and several pieces of the Significant Learning:
- be exposed to, practise, and enjoy experimenting with a wide range of visual-gestural New Zealand Sign Language
- build a growing awareness of the cultural integrity, authenticity, and vitality of New Zealand Sign Language and its status as an official and threatened language
- explore how language and culture affect, and work together in, communication
- participate in activities which use, promote, and celebrate New Zealand Sign Language, including Māori and Pacific contexts
- engage with the histories, beliefs, behavioural norms, and practices of Deaf people in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Making reliable judgements
The Achievement Standard supports the student’s learning development and evaluates their linguistic proficiency in an authentic context. This reflects the idea that language acquisition requires working with an emerging skill set rather than demonstrating perfection.
Collecting evidence
The evidence submitted for this Achievement Standard may not also be submitted for AS 92355 (1.1) Interact in New Zealand Sign Language to share and respond to information, ideas, and opinions.
The evidence for this Achievement Standard will be one student-generated piece about everyday contexts which must be presented in New Zealand Sign Language.
Assessors must follow the Conditions of Assessment for collection of evidence.
Possible contexts
Cultural contexts refer to events or experiences that are relevant to New Zealand Sign Language and Deaf culture. Students may connect New Zealand Sign Language and Deaf culture to cultural practices that are of significance to them. The cultural context should be selected by the student with teacher guidance where appropriate.