AC9L2F2C04 Year 1 Languages

AC9L2F2C04 – Year 1 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in [Language]

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 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

notice that language carries cultural meaning in greetings, introductions, instructions and routines

Elaborations

• using classroom resources such as word banks, wall charts, visual dictionaries, word lists and pictures to translate the meaning of words and expressions
• explaining the meaning of words, phrases, silences and gestures used in everyday contexts and situations in [Language], English and/or other known language(s)
• noticing that different forms of address and kinship terms are used depending on the relationship between participants
• showing others how different signs, gestures or hand talk are used, in particular for elements of the natural environment such as water and animals
• creating bilingual/multilingual texts or resources for various purposes, for example, writing captions or texts in [Language] to match a simple story
• noticing and naming signs and symbols, and explaining their meanings to others, for example, animal tracks or understanding the direction to take in a track noticing bent branches
• playing matching-pair games using words used in everyday conversations in [Language], English and/or other known language(s)

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• performing simple presentations for the school community that involve elements from [Language], English and/or other known language(s), such as a contribution to an assembly or a performance for the wider community

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 1 ASLANFALSLLY12

Year 1 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 2, students use [Language] language to interact and share information related to Country/Place, the classroom and themselves. They use cues to respond to questions and instructions, and use simple formulaic language. They locate and convey key items of information in texts using non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They use familiar words and modelled language to create texts. Students reproduce the sounds and rhythms of spoken [Language]. They demonstrate understanding that [Language] has conventions and rules for non-verbal communication, pronunciation and writing. They give examples of similarities and differences between some features of [Language] and English. They understand that [Language] belongs to Country/Place and Peoples, and is connected with their culture, and notice how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.