AC9L2F10U03
Years 9 to 10
Languages
AC9L2F10U03 | Years 9 to 10 Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor reflect on and evaluate [Language] texts, using metalanguage to analyse language structures and features
Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 9 to 10 Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages · Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration analysing a range of texts, for example, in respect to declaring identity, acknowledging traditional belief systems, acknowledging Ancestors, passing on knowledge and information, mapping resources on Country/Place, and managing natural phenomena such as weather
- • Elaboration using metalanguage for identifying and evaluating different types of sentence structures, idiomatic expressions and imagery, and reflecting how these are used to convey cultural meaning
- • Elaboration analysing how texts are constructed, including cohesive devices such as conjunctions, and coherence devices such as time markers
- • Elaboration applying principles of text organisation when developing both oral and written texts to develop or present ideas, noticing differences in characteristic features of oral and written discourse, and comparing with English and/or other known language(s)
- • Elaboration linking and sequencing ideas to form a cohesive text, using appropriate grammatical forms and language features, for example, compound and complex sentences
- • Elaboration explaining the effect of non-verbal elements of communication such as the use of silence or eye contact in different cultural contexts and exchanges
- • Elaboration reflecting on ways in which written language is different from spoken language
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- • Elaboration comparing and explaining the relative consistency of Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages and English in spelling words, and recognising that English does not capture all Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages phonemes, sound systems and linguistic structures
- • Elaboration understanding that languages borrow from each other and acknowledging the origin of loan words from Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages in English
- • Elaboration discussing how songs and storytelling function to adjust and evolve language and meaning while retaining the essence of the song or story, in ways similar to the place/role/function of literature in other cultures
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