AC9E10LA01 Year 10 English

This Content Descriptor from Year 10 English provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

understand how language can have inclusive and exclusive social effects, and can empower or disempower people

Elaborations

• 1 identifying language that seeks to align the listener or reader; for example, “of course”, “obviously”, “as you can imagine”
• 2 identifying the use of first person (“I”, “we”) and second person (“you”) pronouns to distance or involve the audience
• 3 identifying language used to reference or indicate shared assumptions
• 4 identifying language that appeals to shared cultural knowledge, values and beliefs
• 5 identifying examples of language that are inclusive or marginalising

Related Achievement Standards