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AC9LA10EU01: Year 9 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LA10EU01 Year 9 Languages

AC9LA10EU01 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

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

apply features of the Arabic sound system, including pitch, rhythm, stress, pronunciation and intonation, and show how these are represented in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

  • • pronouncing الشدة and السكون
  • • applying prior knowledge of pronunciation and sound conventions to predict spelling and sound of unfamiliar words during class dictation, reading aloud or transcribing
  • • using the rhythms of the Arabic language, including intonation, tone and stress, to increase fluency and enhance expression
  • • recognising the need for pauses or changes of tone in complex sentences with embedded clauses
  • • listening to a range of audio texts at various speeds such as phone messages and announcements, to develop strategies and techniques to infer meaning
  • • noticing how intonation and tone of voice can convey emotions and shade meaning, such as distinguishing between colloquial or formal language, for example, حقًا؟ يا إلهي! تعال إلى هنا حالاً
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    using onomatopoeia in sentences for literary effect in texts such as comics and stories, for example, بوم بوم! أسمع أصوات الألعاب النارية في ليلة رأس السنة...

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    reciting difficult tongue twisters or making their own, to improve pronunciation, fluency and pace, for example, روحي وروحك يا روحي روحين بروح مطرح متروح روحك روحي بتروح قفص قصب في قفص خشب

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANARA7_10Y910
Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 10, students initiate and sustain Arabic language to exchange and compare ideas and experiences about their own and others’ personal worlds. They communicate using non-verbal, spoken and written language to collaborate, plan and reflect on activities and events. They interpret and analyse information and ideas in texts and demonstrate understanding of different perspectives. They synthesise information and respond in Arabic or English, adjusting language to convey meaning and to suit context, purpose and audience. They use structures and features of spoken and written Arabic to create texts. Students apply features and conventions of spoken Arabic to enhance fluency. They select and apply knowledge of language conventions, structures and features to interact, make meaning and create texts. They support discussion of structures and features of texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own language use and cultural identity, and draw on their experience of learning Arabic, to discuss how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.