AC9LA8EU04 Year 7 Languages

AC9LA8EU04 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture

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

recognise how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values

Elaborations

• exploring the meaning of ‘culture’, and understanding that it involves visible elements, such as ways of eating and behaving, and invisible aspects such as how people live, what they value and how they think of themselves and others
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discussing how language reflects cultural concepts and values, for example, the importance of seeking agreement and compromise as reflected in the way Arabic people express disagreement بالرغم من إحترامي لك، لا اتفق معك
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identifying cultural practices that are important when interacting in Arabic, for example, using the correct personal pronouns to address older people أنتَ/أنتِ, shaking or not shaking hands depending on gender, and the number of kisses on the cheek, for example, حضرتك، أستاذ، المهندس، دكتور
• examining, in Arabic or English, how First Nations Australians’ languages have strong connections to Country/Place and how these can be compared with language variation across Arabic-speaking communities
• explaining gestures and facial expressions that can be used without language to convey meaning such as in greetings, for example, shaking hands, or hand to the heart, kissing 3 times on the cheeks
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connecting the history of Arab migration to Australia with the formation of communities of speakers of Arabic who identify as Arab-Australian and noticing language variation and the influence of English, for example, كمبيوتر، انترنت، موبايل
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recognising and explaining to others the significance of some common cultural practices and customs in Arabic-speaking societies, such as traditional hospitality and exchanging well wishes, for example, تفضل صحة وهنا، بالهناء والشفاء، سلامتك، الله معك

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exploring the importance of music and traditional dance in some Arabic cultures, as an expression of identity and emotions, for example, الدبكة الفلسطنية والعراقية واللبنانية، الرقص الفلكلوري
• researching Arabic-speaking communities of the world, and how cultural identity, traditions and dialects may vary between countries, regions and communities
• examining their own personal and community practices, beliefs and values to identify connections with Arabic heritage, language and culture, for example, customs, festivals, cooking, history, sports clubs, associations
• participating in cultural experiences such as Arabic film festivals, attending Arabic restaurants and performances, or wearing traditional clothing, and reflecting on cultural similarities and differences in own language, practices and behaviours

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANARA7_10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students use Arabic language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions, and recognise familiar gestures, questions and instructions in exchanges. They recognise relationships between spoken and written forms. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in Arabic or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language and modelled sentence and grammatical structures to create texts, with conventions of letter position and vowel marks in writing. Students approximate pronunciation and intonation in spoken Arabic. They demonstrate understanding that Arabic has conventions and rules for non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of Arabic and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the Arabic language is connected with culture and identity, and that this connection is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.