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AC9LA8U01: Year 7 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LA8U01 Year 7 Languages

AC9LA8U01 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

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

apply knowledge of conventions of spoken Arabic to enhance fluency, and to respond to and create texts in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

  • • distinguishing the sounds of Arabic letters that use dots such as ب، ت، ث or ج، ح، خ، د، ذ، ر، ز، ص، ض , to increase clarity of pronunciation and fluency
  • • recognising features of the Arabic sound system, discriminating use of tones, rhythm and sound flow, using grammatical knowledge such as roots and إضافة to help predict the meaning of new words
  • • experimenting with rhythm, voice, emotion and gesture to enhance a performance by conveying the intended sentiment and meaning of songs and rhymes
  • • using prior knowledge of the Arabic sound system to predict spelling of new and unfamiliar words or transcribing spoken texts such as poems or dialogues
  • • estimating the sound and meaning of words based on their understanding of the root system and linking them in an organised pattern, for example, دَرَسَ/مَدرسة
  • • listening to short interactions with unfamiliar voices, different speed, pace and clarity to develop auditory and comprehension skills, including discriminating between the range of vowel and consonant combinations such as التنوين و الشدة والمد , for example, / قرأت كتاباً شيقاً أمل / آمال، دعوة/ دعوى

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANARAF10Y78
Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 8, students initiate and maintain interactions in Arabic language in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to a range of interests and experiences. They use Arabic to collaborate and problem-solve, and adjust language in response to others. They interpret information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences between languages, in both familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts, by adjusting and reorganising responses. They select and use vocabulary, sentence structures, and expressions to create texts. Students apply the conventions of spoken Arabic to develop fluency. They demonstrate understanding that spoken, written and multimodal texts use different language conventions, structures and features to convey meaning. They comment on structures and features of Arabic text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how the Arabic language, culture and identity are interconnected, and compare this with their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.