AC9LCH8U04 Year 7 Languages

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.

reflect on and explain how their own and others’ identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values

Elaborations

• 1 considering how attitudes, beliefs and values can be reflected in language and gesture, for example, in everyday conversations and television programs, noticing when a younger person stands up out of respect when a senior person enters the room or waits for the senior person to eat first, and uses language such as 请坐！您先请！
• 2 reflecting on the influence of Chinese culture on their own communication style, for example, discussing whether they modify their communication style when interacting in English-speaking contexts such as with siblings, calling them by name instead of by their titles as in Chinese, 哥哥，姐姐
• 3 reflecting on participation in cultural events, noting similarities and differences in how practices change in a different contexts and regions, for example, 我们家不过中秋节，因为大家都觉得不太重要。母亲节那天我们全家去爷爷奶奶家一起吃饭。
• 4 examining, in Chinese or English, how First Nations Australians’ languages have strong connections to Country/Place and how these can be compared with language variation across Chinese-speaking communities
• 5 comparing cultural elements reflected in language use and social norms such as body language, volume of voice, the use of personal space and silence in different cultural contexts and exchanges
• 6 recognising that some Chinese social behaviours may be misinterpreted as lack of courtesy, for example, smiling instead of saying thank you, or not opening gifts straight away in front of guests
• 7 developing self-awareness of possible stereotyping during interactions, being sensitive and considerate when asking questions to avoid offence to others
• 8 discussing how family origins reflect the use of language, for example, mixing Chinese with English while speaking to another speaker of Chinese 我和朋友经常说汉语时夹着英语，但是我姥姥听不懂英语，我就会想想全部用汉语该怎么说。

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