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AC9L2F10U01: Year 9 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9L2F10U01 Year 9 Languages

AC9L2F10U01 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

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

apply features and conventions of spoken [Language] to extend fluency in responding to and creating texts in familiar and unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

  • • applying authentic pitch, rhythm, stress, pronunciation and intonation modelled on [Language] speech in spoken texts, for example, in Ngarrindjeri the first syllable of a word is stressed
  • • recognising and reproducing the rhythm of extended sentences, such as the correct pausing for clauses in a complex sentence for effect
  • • practising complex sounds for fluency using tongue twisters
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    listening to and/or viewing excerpts of authentic texts in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts, and identifying pronunciation patterns, for example, pronunciation of phonemes g or gg in Gangulu mungu munggu; rolling of r or rr in Ngarrindjeri and meaning; sound of dh and tj

  • • understanding the major place of articulation categories in Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages, for example, articulation at lip or soft palate, involving the flat of the tongue and position of the tongue in relation to teeth, and obstructing the air passage with tip of the tongue, and recognising their realisation across different languages and regions in Australia
  • • using their knowledge of alphabetic conventions for Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages to transcribe spoken texts from a range of languages, for example, those related to the [Language] or those from neighbouring regions
  • • understand and apply the conventions or rules for consonants, vowels (short, long blend) and diphthongs

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.