AC9L1RF10U05 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.

reflect on and evaluate how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s) and Country/Place, and how these affect ways of communicating

Elaborations

• 1 applying culturally-appropriate protocols when inviting Elders and/or community members to share knowledge relating to language, culture, identity and Country/Place
• 2 analysing and discussing attitudes or emotions such as respect, embarrassment, shame, avoidance, reciprocity, obligation or responsibility and how these are culturally expressed or concealed across First Nations Peoples
• 3 explaining the role of Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages and cultures in passing on knowledge, such as sustainable care of the environment, rules for living, ways of behaving, spiritual and cultural functions and histories
• 4 reflecting on First Nations ways of classifying the natural and cultural world, and how this is connected with Peoples, cultural knowledge, Country/Place and identity, and comparing these with other systems of classification
• 5 discussing that there are multiple views on and explanations for current and past events and issues concerning First Nations Peoples, and discussing ways to promote awareness, and advocating for positive action, outcomes and change for the future
• 6 investigating how practices have changed over time, such as trading practices, transitions from traditional life to settlements, and changes in land and sea management practices, and considering how these changes affect language, culture, people and identity
• 7 researching the role and importance of advocacy in supporting the reclamation and revitalisation of the languages, cultures, knowledge and traditional practices of the First Nations of Australia – the oldest living continuous culture in the world – for the benefit of all Australians

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