AC9L2F6U04 Year 5 Languages

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.

understand how [Language] and Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages can be revived, maintained and strengthened

Elaborations

• 1 understanding terms used in discussions about some Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages, such as revitalisation, reclamation and renewal
• 2 identifying some of the complexities, challenges and barriers involved in keeping oral traditions strong, such as colonisation and present-day global influences
• 3 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
• 4 understanding that dances, songs, stories and designs are connected through and belong to kinship and other social groupings, place, histories and stories
• 5 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
• 6 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
• 7 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
• 8 researching how local language has developed and identifying historical connections with other local languages

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