AC9L1F10U01 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.

apply features and conventions of spoken [Language] to extend fluency in response to a range of contexts, purposes and audience

Elaborations

• 1 reading aloud extended texts using appropriate pauses, emphasis, intonation, stress and tone to enhance and convey meaning
• 2 reading aloud a Creation, Dreamtime, Dreaming or traditional story to a wider audience, to model authentic spoken language and share and strengthen connections with Country/Place and Peoples, for example, at NAIDOC events
• 3 applying the rules and conventions of speech-sound combinations, such as sets of vowel and consonant phonemes and rules for word stress
• 4 acknowledging and understanding that there are similarities and differences in Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages, and discussing how unique sounds are connected with Country/Place and Peoples
• 5 understanding the major place of articulation categories in Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages, for example, articulation at lip or soft palate, involving the flat of the tongue and position of the tongue in relation to teeth, and obstructing the air passage with tip of the tongue, and recognising their realisation across different languages and regions in Australia
• 6 applying their knowledge of a range of alphabetic and punctuation conventions, supported by their grammatical and vocabulary knowledge, to transcribe speech sounds, syllables and words in [Language]
• 7 using digital tools to source recordings of the rhythm and intonation patterns of other Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages, to analyse and discuss the diversity of sound in their findings

Related Achievement Standards