AC9E9LA01 – Year 9 English: Language for interacting with others

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

Elaborations

• 1 identifying the various communities to which students belong and how language reinforces membership of these communities; for example, the intimate language of family members, the jargon of teenage groups, the technicality of some online communities, the language specific to recreational groups and the interaction patterns of the classroom
• 2 exploring language used by First Nations Australian authors to reinforce relationships to Country/Place and with others; for example, “Hello” in Turrabul language is “Galang nguruindhau”

Related Achievement Standards