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AC9L1F8U01: Year 7 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L1F8U01 Year 7 Languages

AC9L1F8U01 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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 knowledge of conventions of spoken [Language] to enhance fluency, and respond to and create texts, in familiar and unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

  • • communicating effectively by using appropriate register and intonation when interacting in spontaneous conversations with family and/or community members
  • • reading aloud a real or imagined story to younger students, using appropriate intonation, stress and tone to share meaning
  • • retelling a Creation, Dreamtime, Dreaming or traditional story to younger students to model spoken language and share and strengthen connections with Country/Place and Peoples
  • • comparing speech-sound constraints in different Aboriginal languages and different Torres Strait Islander languages, for example, sets of vowel and consonant phonemes, allowable combinations of sounds, and rules for word stress
  • • developing metalanguage to describe and talk about sounds and phonology, such as the articulation categories in Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages, for example, the shape of the mouth and lips, the position of the tongue in relation to teeth, palate and air passage, and rolling or trilling of the tongue
  • • applying knowledge of the shape of the mouth, position of tongue, etc., when pronouncing words, phrases and expressions
  • • sharing phonological knowledge of their own Aboriginal language(s) and/or Torres Strait Islander language(s), recognising similarities and differences, and discussing how unique sounds are connected with Country/Place and Peoples
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  • • using their knowledge of alphabetic conventions to transcribe speech sounds, syllables and words in [Language]
  • • transcribing spoken language, using a range of alphabetic and punctuation conventions, supported by their grammatical and vocabulary knowledge of [Language]

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANFALFLLY78
Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 8, students contribute to and maintain interactions in [Language] language in familiar and unfamiliar contexts related to a range of experiences and perspectives. They use [Language] to negotiate solutions, and adjust language in response to others. They interpret and analyse information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences among languages, in both familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts, by adjusting responses to suit context, purpose and audience. They select and use vocabulary, sentence structures and expressions, manipulating language to create texts. Students apply the conventions of spoken [Language] to extend fluency. They demonstrate understanding that spoken, written and multimodal texts use different language conventions, structures and features to convey meaning. They explain structures and features of [Language] text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how language Custodians pass down knowledge and cultural norms, and understand the protocols of maintaining and strengthening [Language]. They understand how these are interconnected with their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.