AC9LC10U04 Year 9 Languages

AC9LC10U04 – Year 9 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 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 how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), beliefs, attitudes and values, and how these affect ways of communicating

Elaborations

• engaging in interaction with Chinese speakers and reflecting on how their own language choices are perceived by other Chinese speakers, for example, considering, “Is my communication culturally appropriate?”, “Should I adjust language and gesture to help convey meaning more effectively?”
• reflecting on taboos in language use and how these can impact on communication across cultures, for example, reflecting on, “Is it okay to ask someone’s age in China?”, “Why do numbers and colours matter?”, “What are we superstitious about in Australia?”, “What hand gestures are acceptable with Chinese speakers?”, “What can I joke about?”
• making connections between their first language and how it influences communication in additional languages, for example, thinking about, “Why do Chinese-speaking people speak English in certain ways?”, “What features of my first language influence how I speak Chinese?”, “How does this affect mediation of ideas between languages?”
• reflecting on and explaining the protocols required to authentically co-create an Acknowledgement of Country/Place with a First Nations Australian to present in Chinese for a group of Chinese-speaking visitors at a school assembly
• using alternative ways of expressing meanings when communicating complex ideas, for example, 我家只有我一个孩子 for 我是独生子/独生女
• exploring diversity within Chinese speakers’ identities and becoming more aware of this when interacting, for example, understanding that calling Chinese speakers 中国人 does not reflect the diversity of the many nationalities and identities of Chinese-speaking people

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANCHISLF10Y910

Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students contribute to and extend interactions in Chinese 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 devices to enhance meaning and cohesion. They select and use a variety of characters appropriate to context, using Pinyin to transcribe spoken texts.Students incorporate features, conventions and phrasing patterns of spoken Chinese including variations in intonation, rhythm and sounds, to enhance fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the conventions of spoken and written texts and the connections between them. They apply knowledge of grammar and character form and function, and language structures and features, to make and predict meaning. They support analysis of Chinese texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own cultural perspectives and identity, and draw on their experience of learning Chinese, to evaluate how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.