AC9LCH6U04 Year 5 Languages

AC9LCH6U04 – Year 5 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 5 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 that language reflects cultural practices, values and identity, and that this impacts on non-verbal and spoken communication

Elaborations

• discussing language choices expected or required in diverse contexts across languages, for example, apologising, congratulating, expressing thanks, declining, rejecting and complaining
• recognising the interconnections between cultural practices and language use, for example, adding 叔叔, 老师, 阿姨 ... after surnames to show respect rather than addressing adults by their first names
• noticing that language varies between regions, for example, soup spoon in Northern China is called 勺子 and 汤匙 or 调羹 in Southern China
• exploring, in Chinese and English, how language and culture are expressed through First Nations Australians’ song, dance or artworks, considering similarities and differences in an aspect of the cultural expressions of Chinese-speaking people or communities
• identifying ways in which Chinese language and culture influence the lives of Australians, for example, Chinese cuisine such as 北京烤鸭, and fashion such as 旗袍, 汉服
• engaging with Chinese peers in diverse contexts, identifying situations in which misunderstanding or miscommunication occurs, and exploring strategies to overcome these
• noticing and reflecting on how interacting in Chinese may feel different from interacting in English, and identifying ways of communicating or behaving that appear culturally specific

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASLANCHIBLLF-1Y56

Year 5 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 6, students initiate and use strategies to maintain interactions in Chinese language that are related to their immediate environment. They collaborate in spoken and written activities that involve the language of planning and problem-solving to share information, ideas and preferences. They use strategies to locate and interpret information and ideas in texts, and demonstrate understanding by responding in Chinese or English, adjusting their response to context, purpose and audience. They create texts, using characters with appropriate stroke order and radicals, vocabulary and sentence structures to suit context. They sequence information and ideas, and use conventions appropriate to text type. Students apply rules for pronunciation and intonation in spoken Chinese. They apply conventions of script and punctuation, and use modelled structures, when creating and responding in Chinese. They compare language structures and features in Chinese and English, using some metalanguage. They show understanding of how some language reflects cultural practices and consider how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.