AS 92357 · 5 credits · External
Understanding NZ Sign Language
Demonstrate understanding of New Zealand Sign Language related to everyday contexts
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You watch videos of people signing in New Zealand Sign Language and answer questions to show you understand what they signed. You need to identify key information (like events, plans, and reasons), explain what's happening, and support your answers with details from what you watched. Your answers can be in English, te reo Māori, or NZSL.
What to do, grades and common mistakes
- ·Identify the main ideas in signed conversations — events, plans, and reasons for decisions
- ·Answer the specific questions asked rather than just translating or summarizing what you saw
- ·Explain *why* things happen or changed, with supporting details from the video
- ·Show you understand by using evidence from the signed texts to back up what you say
- ·Demonstrate you caught the overall meaning, even if some parts are a bit unclear
You show basic understanding of the main ideas and events in the signed videos, and you answer the questions being asked.
You explain not just what happened but why — for example, why someone changed their plan or how they felt — and you support your explanations with details from what was signed.