AC9LF10EU04 Years 9 to 10 Languages

Content descriptor reflect on and explain how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), beliefs, attitudes and values and how these affect ways of communicating

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• • Elaboration examining how changes to the French language reflect changes in some cultural practices and attitudes, for example, le fastfood, la fin de semaine/le weekend, la pub/le pub
• • Elaboration considering how language marks respect, values and attitudes, for example, the (changing) gendered nature of some professional titles in French such as un médecin, un chef, une professeure, une ministre
• • Elaboration developing language for thinking and talking about cultural representation and expression such as perspectives, values, images, stereotypes, inclusions and exclusions, for example, vous les autres … nous les jeunes …
• • Elaboration reflecting on and explaining the protocols required to authentically co-create an Acknowledgement of Country/Place with a First Nations Australian, to present in French to a group of French-speaking visitors at a school assembly
• • Elaboration exploring the reciprocal nature of communication, the 2-way process of noticing and responding to differences in perceptions, understandings or behaviours such as gestures, body language, attitudes to interruptions, personal space and physical contact, and degree of formality or directness, in relation to a specific context
• • Elaboration using personal journals and group discussions to reflect on and evaluate how learning French has had an impact on their own assumptions about French language, culture and identity
• • Elaboration sharing ideas about how culture ‘works’ as a combination of beliefs, values and practices, and examining their own personal and community cultural frames of reference and how and why these change over time

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• • Elaboration recognising how diversity of expression and language forms reflects the diversity of individual and community perspectives and experience
• • Elaboration considering how the experience of learning a new language has had an impact on awareness of their own communicative and cultural behaviours and how these may be interpreted by others
• • Elaboration reflecting on the power of language in relation to their own and others’ experience such as winning an argument, working out the meaning of unfamiliar French words, being locked out of conversations or being a newcomer/an outsider in a social group