AC9L2F10U05 Year 9 Languages

AC9L2F10U05 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity

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

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

Elaborations

• applying culturally-appropriate protocols when inviting Elders and/or community members to share knowledge relating to language, culture, identity and Country/Place
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

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.