Year 7 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Languages 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 contribute to and maintain interactions in [Language] language in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to a range of interests and experiences. They use [Language] to negotiate solutions and adjust language in response to others. They interpret information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences among languages, in both familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts, by adjusting responses to suit context, purpose and audience. They select and use vocabulary, sentence structures and expressions to create texts.
Students apply the conventions of spoken [Language] to enhance 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 [Language] text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how language communities pass down, maintain or revive [Language], knowledge and cultural norms following appropriate protocols, and how these are interconnected with identity. They reflect on their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.
Content Descriptors by Strand
This standard is supported by 10 Content Descriptors:
Communicating meaning in [Language]
Interacting in [Language]
AC9LRF8C01 initiate and sustain exchanges in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to students’ experiences, feelings and views, adjusting their language in response to others AC9LRF8C02 collaborate in activities that involve the language of transaction, negotiation and problem-solving, to plan projects and eventsMediating meaning in and between languages
AC9LRF8C03 interpret information, ideas and opinions in a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience AC9LRF8C04 interpret and adjust non-verbal, spoken and written language to convey meaning in [Language] language in familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contextsCreating text in [Language]
AC9LRF8C05 create and present spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts for specific purposes, selecting vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures and features, and conventions appropriate to text type and contextUnderstanding language and culture
Understanding systems of language
AC9LRF8U01 apply knowledge of conventions of spoken [Language] to enhance fluency, and respond to and create texts, in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts AC9LRF8U02 apply understanding of grammatical structures and features to compose and respond to texts AC9LRF8U03 reflect on similarities and differences between [Language] and English language structures and features, using metalanguageUnderstanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity
AC9LRF8U04 reflect on how language conveys cultural knowledge, practices and norms AC9LRF8U05 reflect on and explain how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), and Country/Place, and how these impact on communicationAt a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communicating meaning in [Language] | Interacting in [Language] | 2 | 24 |
| Communicating meaning in [Language] | Mediating meaning in and between languages | 2 | 25 |
| Communicating meaning in [Language] | Creating text in [Language] | 1 | 13 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language | 3 | 33 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity | 2 | 17 |
| Total | 10 | 112 | |