AC9E8LA01
Year 8
English
AC9E8LA01 | Year 8 English: Language for interacting with others
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor recognise how language shapes relationships and roles
Strand
Language
Substrand
Language for interacting with others
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 8 English. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration understanding that group identities are formed through language that reflects shared values, beliefs and behaviours, and through language choices that engender solidarity such as specialist terminology, acronyms and terms of address; for example, teenage groups and sportspeople have adopted particular words and ways of communicating
- • Elaboration exploring the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Map of Indigenous Australia and identifying language names that inform relationships to Country/Place
Plan a lesson from this content description.
Start freeAchievement standard statements this supports
- By the end of Year 8, students interact with others, and listen to and create spoken and/or multimodal texts including literary texts.See it on the standard page →
- With different purposes and for audiences, they discuss, express and elaborate on ideas with supporting evidence.See it on the standard page →
- They select and vary language features including literary devices, and/or multimodal features and features of voice.See it on the standard page →
- They read, view and comprehend a range of texts created to inform, influence and/or engage audiences.See it on the standard page →