AC9L1F10U04 Year 9 Languages

AC9L1F10U04 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity

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

understand and apply protocols associated with language learning and language using in cultural contexts

Elaborations

• ensuring that cultural norms, mores and protocols are followed and applied to access, elicit, record, store and use information about [Language] and cultures
• keeping Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages texts and resources safe and secure within the school and local community, for example, in school, community or national archives
• explaining how the phases of life from childhood to adulthood have kinship practices, rights and obligations to Country/Place, for example, as they develop, children change the ways they refer to people and they build cultural knowledge to care for Country/Place
• explaining the importance of intergenerational collaboration and passing down of knowledge in keeping [Language] strong and discussing some of the associated challenges
• engaging in intergenerational passing down of knowledge of [Language] to retain and strengthen cultural knowledge, skills and understandings, such as gathering of resources and foods, and recording cultural events and ways of cultural expression
• taking responsibility for their role as young contemporary users of [Language], to assist the retention and continuity of [Language], oral histories and cultural knowledge, for example, interviewing Elders and/or community members and transcribing their stories and histories

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.