AC9L2F8U05 Year 7 Languages

AC9L2F8U05 – Year 7 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 7 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 explain how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), and Country/Place, and how these impact on communication

Elaborations

• explaining the role of language in relation to culture and identity, and in passing down knowledge, such as sustainable care of the environment, rules for living, ways of behaving, spiritual and cultural functions, and histories
• reflecting on ways the [Language] community classifies natural and cultural worlds, and comparing these with other indigenous and western systems of classification
• understanding that culturally-significant attitudes and beliefs conveyed through [Language] are related to the past, to land, plants, animals and celebrations
• analysing concepts related to cultural values in [Language], including naming systems, such as kinship terms and nicknames
• identifying and discussing core cultural concepts reflected in Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages, such as respect, avoidance, reciprocity, obligation and responsibility
• considering how and why [Language] speakers use particular conversation strategies such as indirect language to avoid conflict
• reflecting on ways culture is interpreted by others, for example, identifying how stereotypes influence perceptions among different groups and communities

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANFALSLLY78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students contribute to and maintain interactions in [Language] language in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to a range of interests and experiences. They use [Language] to negotiate solutions and adjust language in response to others. They interpret information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences among languages, in both familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts, by adjusting responses to suit context, purpose and audience. They select and use vocabulary, sentence structures and expressions to create texts. Students apply the conventions of spoken [Language] to enhance fluency. They demonstrate understanding that spoken, written and multimodal texts use different language conventions, structures and features to convey meaning. They comment on structures and features of [Language] text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how language communities pass down, maintain or revive [Language], knowledge and cultural norms following appropriate protocols, and how these are interconnected with identity. They reflect on their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.