AC9LA10U03 Year 9 Languages

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.

reflect on and evaluate Arabic texts, using metalanguage to analyse language structures and features

Elaborations

• 1 analysing how language choices help achieve particular purposes and effects in particular types of Arabic and English texts, such as descriptive language in documentaries, reflective language in personal, secure blogs, diary or journal entries, and persuasive language in advertisements and speeches
• 2 discussing the use of diacritics in Arabic texts for decorative purposes in items such as book titles, letter heads and nameplates, and comparing with English text aesthetics such as fonts and cursive styles
• 3 examining a range of spoken and written Arabic and English texts, discussing similarities, differences and connections between context, purpose and audience, and what the texts reveal about social relationships and processes, for example, reflections of status, authority, or concepts of respect and politeness
• 4 understanding and using metalanguage to discuss grammatical features of texts and to explain how word order, tenses and moods, adjectives and adverbs can be used to enhance meaning and expand expression
• 5 using prior knowledge of Arabic and English grammatical structures and language functions, and explaining these to others, to develop and learn further language, for example, noticing and remembering grammatical patterns
• 6 being the teacher or buddy and annotating peers’ draft work, offering suggestions such as sequencing of ideas, grammatical structures, paragraphs and layout

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