Year 7 Arabic Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 7 Languages by the end of the year. Teachers can use it to guide assessment design, collect evidence of learning, and ensure planning stays aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9.
What Students Should Know
By the end of Year 8, students initiate and maintain interactions in Arabic language in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to a range of interests and experiences. They use Arabic to collaborate and problem-solve, and adjust language in response to others. They interpret information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences between languages, in both familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts, by adjusting and reorganising responses. They select and use vocabulary, sentence structures, and expressions to create texts.
Students apply the conventions of spoken Arabic to develop fluency. They demonstrate understanding that spoken, written and multimodal texts use different language conventions, structures and features to convey meaning. They comment on structures and features of Arabic text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how the Arabic language, culture and identity are interconnected, and compare this with their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.
Content Descriptors by Strand
This standard is supported by 9 Content Descriptors:
Communicating meaning in Arabic
Interacting in Arabic
AC9LA8C01 initiate and sustain exchanges in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to students’ experiences, feelings and views, adjusting their language in response to others AC9LA8C02 collaborate in activities that involve the language of transaction, negotiation and problem-solving to plan projects and eventsMediating meaning in and between languages
AC9LA8C03 interpret information, ideas and opinions in a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience AC9LA8C04 interpret and adjust non-verbal, spoken and written language to convey meaning in Arabic language in familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contextsCreating text in Arabic
AC9LA8C05 create and present spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts for specific purposes, selecting vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures, features and conventions appropriate to text type and contextUnderstanding language and culture
Understanding systems of language
AC9LA8U01 apply knowledge of conventions of spoken Arabic to enhance fluency, and to respond to and create texts in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts AC9LA8U02 apply understanding of grammatical structures and expressions to compose and respond to texts AC9LA8U03 reflect on similarities and differences between Arabic and English language structures and features, using metalanguageUnderstanding the interrelationship of language and culture
AC9LA8U04 reflect on and explain how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and valuesAt a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communicating meaning in Arabic | Interacting in Arabic | 2 | 17 |
| Communicating meaning in Arabic | Mediating meaning in and between languages | 2 | 18 |
| Communicating meaning in Arabic | Creating text in Arabic | 1 | 10 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language | 3 | 27 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture | 1 | 9 |
| Total | 9 | 81 | |