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AC9LA10U03: Year 9 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LA10U03 Year 9 Languages

AC9LA10U03 – 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

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

Elaborations

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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANARAF10Y910
Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 10, students contribute to and extend interactions in Arabic language in increasingly unfamiliar contexts related to a wide range of interests and issues. They interpret texts by evaluating and synthesising information, ideas and perspectives. They show understanding of how features of language can be used to influence audience response. They create texts, selecting and manipulating language for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. They apply and use complex sentences and structures to create and respond to spoken and written texts. They use a variety of tenses to sequence events and use language features to enhance meaning and cohesion. Students incorporate the features and conventions of spoken Arabic to extend fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the conventions of spoken and written texts and the connections between them. They apply knowledge of language structures and features to make and predict meaning. They support analysis of Arabic texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own cultural perspectives and identity, and draw on their experience of learning Arabic, to evaluate how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.