AC9L2F6U04 – Year 5 Languages: Understanding the interrelationship of language, culture and identity

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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.

Elaborations

• • understanding terms used in discussions about some Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages, such as revitalisation, reclamation and renewal
• • identifying some of the complexities, challenges and barriers involved in keeping oral traditions strong, such as colonisation and present-day global influences
• • recognising the importance of cultural ownership and traditional kinship systems in dances, songs, stories, tools and designs, and how specific cultural groups hold custodial rights and responsibilities over these expressions
• • understanding that dances, songs, stories and designs are connected through and belong to kinship and other social groupings, place, histories and stories
• • recognising and using principles and protocols of cultural safety when engaging with cultural material or property, for example, seeking permission and explaining the purpose of a visit to someone else’s property or Community by writing an entry-request letter using modelled language
• • researching ways that language and culture have been revitalised and strengthened in their community, for example, by using [Language] in writing, recording, archiving material, media services, ceremonies, celebrations, songs and music, and visual designs
• • engaging and asking questions of local community members about the histories and experiences of their language(s), for example, asking which aspects of language they learnt through songs and stories

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: