AC9LCH10U04 Year 9 Languages

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.

reflect on and evaluate how their own and others’ identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values, and how these affect ways of communicating

Elaborations

• 1 reflecting on how their own identity is shaped by attitudes, beliefs, values and languages used every day, for example, comparing different ways of greeting, expressing congratulations or condolence
• 2 showing how the use of titles indicates respect or formality in Chinese compared with Australian culture, for example, 王老板, 李师傅, 张老师, 陈经理
• 3 indicating the impact of globalisation on cultural change, and their own identity and beliefs, for example, 男尊女卑的时代早就过时了。
• 4 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 to a group of Chinese-speaking visitors at a school assembly
• 5 demonstrating the impact of loan words and internet language on the changes in modern languages and culture, such as 粉丝, 艾特
• 6 reflecting on how non-verbal cultural behaviour such as dress codes affect communication in different cultural settings

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