AC9LF10EU04 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 explain how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), beliefs, attitudes and values and how these affect ways of communicating

Elaborations

• 1

  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

• 2

  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

• 3

  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 …

• 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 French to a group of French-speaking visitors at a school assembly
• 5 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
• 6 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
• 7 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
• 8 recognising how diversity of expression and language forms reflects the diversity of individual and community perspectives and experience
• 9 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
• 10 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

Related Achievement Standards