AC9L1F10U04 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 ensuring that cultural norms, mores and protocols are followed and applied to access, elicit, record, store and use information about [Language] and cultures
• 2 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
• 3 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
• 4 explaining the importance of intergenerational collaboration and passing down of knowledge in keeping [Language] strong and discussing some of the associated challenges
• 5 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
• 6 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

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