AC9L1F6U04 Years 5 to 6 Languages

Content descriptor understand how Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages are maintained and strengthened

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• • Elaboration identifying some of the complexities, challenges and barriers involved in keeping oral traditions strong
• • Elaboration recognising the importance of cultural ownership and traditional kinship systems in songs, stories, dances, tools and designs, and how specific cultural groups hold custodial rights and responsibilities over these expressions
• • Elaboration understanding that songs, stories, dances and designs are connected through and belong to kinship and other social groupings, place, histories and stories
• • Elaboration recognising and using principles and protocols of cultural safety when engaging with cultural material or property, for example, seeking permission and explaining the purpose of a visit to someone else’s property or Community by writing an entry-request letter
• • Elaboration understanding ways that language and culture have been maintained and strengthened in their community, for example, by using [Language] in writing, recording, archiving material, media services, ceremonies, celebrations, songs and music, and visual designs
• • Elaboration understanding that some Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages are being revitalised, reclaimed or renewed
• • Elaboration engaging and asking questions of local community members about the histories and experiences of their language(s), for example, asking in [Language] which aspects of language they learnt through songs and stories

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• • Elaboration researching how local language has developed and identifying historical connections with other local languages