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AC9L1F10U01: Year 9 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L1F10U01 Year 9 Languages

AC9L1F10U01 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

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.

Content Descriptor

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

Elaborations

  • • reading aloud extended texts using appropriate pauses, emphasis, intonation, stress and tone to enhance and convey meaning
  • • 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
  • • applying the rules and conventions of speech-sound combinations, such as sets of vowel and consonant phonemes and rules for word stress
  • • 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
  • • 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
  • • 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]
  • • 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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANFALFLLY910
Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 10, students contribute to and extend interactions in [Language] language related to diverse contexts and perspectives. They interpret and respond to texts by evaluating and synthesising information, ideas and perspectives. They show understanding of how features of language can be used to influence audience response. They create texts, selecting and manipulating language for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. They apply and use complex structures and language devices to enhance meaning and cohesion. Students apply and adjust features and conventions of spoken [Language] to extend fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the conventions of spoken and written texts and the connections between them. They apply knowledge of language structures and features to make and predict meaning. They support analysis of [Language] texts, using metalanguage. They understand and apply protocols that relate to learning and using [Language] in their community. They reflect on their own cultural perspectives and identity, and draw on their experience of learning [Language], to evaluate how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.