AC9L1F10C01 Year 9 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 Languages 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.

initiate, sustain and extend exchanges in a range of contexts related to students’ own and others’ experiences of the world, adjusting their language in response to others

Elaborations

• 1 interacting with Elders and/or community members to document their cultural knowledge, skills and understandings, and histories of Country/Place and Peoples
• 2 extending the language of discussion, for example, clarifying or justifying their own statements, responding to others’ perspectives using reflective and/or evaluative language, and accepting or refusing others’ ideas and points of view and justifying their agreement or disagreement with evidence
• 3 providing encouraging feedback in discussions
• 4 reflecting on shared experiences such as visiting museums, exhibitions, sites of cultural significance and repatriation sites, and evaluating differences in their responses and perspectives
• 5 sharing past and current events or experiences with teachers and peers, and discussing how these events and experiences develop connections with Elders, community and Country/Place
• 6 discussing their plans and aspirations for the future, and the pros and cons, benefits and challenges they may face, for example, cultural responsibilities and obligations, further study, career paths and travel
• 7 using deferential speech styles with Elders and/or community members, maintaining kinship, moiety and cultural Lore in interactions
• 8 discussing social, environmental or educational issues that impact on their community, for example, the effects of mining, farming practices, commercial fishing or tourism on community life
• 9 identifying issues affecting Country/Place and Peoples, including cultural and economic aspects, and discussing possible solutions involving First Nations Peoples, for example, in tourism, managing feral animals, monitoring endangered animals, reintroducing native species, revegetation, water quality, adequate infrastructure and health care
• 10 discussing issues regarding First Nations Peoples in local or national mainstream news media and sharing their own points of view, ideas and perspectives with teachers and peers

Related Achievement Standards