AC9L1F6U04 Year 5 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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 how Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages are maintained and strengthened

Elaborations

• 1 identifying some of the complexities, challenges and barriers involved in keeping oral traditions strong
• 2 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
• 3 understanding that songs, stories, dances and designs are connected through and belong to kinship and other social groupings, place, histories and stories
• 4 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
• 5 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
• 6 understanding that some Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages are being revitalised, reclaimed or renewed
• 7 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
• 8 researching how local language has developed and identifying historical connections with other local languages

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