AC9L2F10C03 Year 9 Languages

AC9L2F10C03 – Year 9 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in [Language]

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between 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.

Content Descriptor

evaluate and synthesise information, ideas and perspectives in a broad range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• discussing and explaining First Nations Peoples’ spiritual and cultural connections with Country/Place, land, waters, sky and all living things, and how this is expressed through the arts
• analysing the role and representation of people, animals and landscapes in different types of texts about First Nations Peoples and Country/Place
• collating information from interviews in [Language] and/or English about a significant person, and develop a personal profile, biography, poster or story board for the class
• interviewing Elders and/or community members using appropriate protocols, listening to local history stories and collating information about significant events, for example, European colonisation, land rights and stolen generations
• responding to an email or correspondence written in [Language] from peers or family members, addressing all information and questions raised
• researching a topic and presenting the information in [Language] in diagrammatic, graphic or symbolic form
• presenting findings related to the investigation of a social or cultural issue, and summarising opinions and attitudes collected from surveys, interviews or media sources

Show 5 more elaborations

• interpreting and responding to texts such as songs, stories, films or video clips, if appropriate, identifying and explaining main ideas and themes, and sharing personal views and reactions with others
• viewing animations and responding to contexts by developing word lists, categorising cultural elements, interpreting and translating meaning
• discussing how key messages and beliefs are communicated through stories and visual and creative arts such as Creation, Dreamtime, Dreaming and traditional stories
• listening to, viewing and sharing personal responses to music in [Language], identifying key messages, themes and performance styles
• comparing details from a range of dances or stories related to special occasions and ceremonies, identifying culture-specific terms and/or representations and/or dialectic differences

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANFALSLLY910

Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students contribute to and extend interactions in [Language] language in increasingly unfamiliar contexts related to a wide range of interests and issues. They interpret and respond to texts by evaluating and synthesising information, ideas and perspectives. They show understanding of how features of language can be used to influence audience response. They create texts, selecting and manipulating language for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. They use complex structures to enhance meaning and cohesion. Students incorporate the features and conventions of spoken [Language] to extend fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the conventions of spoken and written texts and the connections between them. They apply knowledge of language structures and features to make and predict meaning. They support analysis of [Language] texts, using metalanguage. They understand that there are appropriate protocols that relate to learning and using [Language]. They reflect on their own cultural perspectives and identity, and draw on their experience of learning [Language] to evaluate how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.