AC9LA10U03 Years 9 to 10 Languages

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

Elaborations

• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration being the teacher or buddy and annotating peers’ draft work, offering suggestions such as sequencing of ideas, grammatical structures, paragraphs and layout