Year 9 Arabic Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 9 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 10, students contribute to and extend interactions in Arabic language in increasingly unfamiliar contexts related to a wide range of interests and issues. They interpret texts by evaluating and synthesising information, ideas and perspectives. They show understanding of how features of language can be used to influence audience response. They create texts, selecting and manipulating language for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. They apply and use complex sentences and structures to create and respond to spoken and written texts. They use a variety of tenses to sequence events and use language features to enhance meaning and cohesion.
Students incorporate the features and conventions of spoken Arabic to extend fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the conventions of spoken and written texts and the connections between them. They apply knowledge of language structures and features to make and predict meaning. They support analysis of Arabic texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own cultural perspectives and identity, and draw on their experience of learning Arabic, to evaluate how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.
Content Descriptors by Strand
This standard is supported by 9 Content Descriptors:
Communicating meaning in Arabic
Interacting in Arabic
AC9LA10C01 initiate, sustain and extend exchanges in familiar and unfamiliar contexts related to students’ own and others’ experiences of the world, adjusting their language in response to others AC9LA10C02 contribute to discussions that involve diverse views to negotiate outcomes, address issues and compare experiencesMediating meaning in and between languages
AC9LA10C03 evaluate and synthesise information, ideas and perspectives in a broad range of spoken, written and multimodal texts and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience AC9LA10C04 interpret and translate non-verbal, spoken and written interactions and texts to convey meaning and intercultural understanding in familiar and unfamiliar contextsCreating text in Arabic
AC9LA10C05 create and present informative and imaginative texts for diverse contexts and purposes, selecting vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures and a range of features and conventions to engage different audiencesUnderstanding language and culture
Understanding systems of language
AC9LA10U01 apply features and conventions of spoken Arabic to extend fluency in responding to and creating texts in familiar and unfamiliar contexts AC9LA10U02 apply knowledge of grammatical structures to predict meaning and compose texts that contain some complex structures and ideas AC9LA10U03 reflect on and evaluate Arabic texts, using metalanguage to analyse language structures and featuresUnderstanding the interrelationship of language and culture
AC9LA10U04 reflect on and evaluate how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values and how these affect ways of communicatingAt a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communicating meaning in Arabic | Interacting in Arabic | 2 | 18 |
| Communicating meaning in Arabic | Mediating meaning in and between languages | 2 | 18 |
| Communicating meaning in Arabic | Creating text in Arabic | 1 | 11 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language | 3 | 31 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture | 1 | 12 |
| Total | 9 | 90 | |