AC9LF10U01 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding systems of language

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.

Elaborations

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  increasing fluency and accuracy, using appropriate rhythm, pitch and the use of connectives such as normalement … à vrai dire … and gestures to enhance communication

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  applying correct pronunciation to more complex syllable combinations, for example, la magnitude, les augmentations

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  recognising the fluid nature of spoken language, identifying features such as interactivity and the use of repetition, pauses, interruptions and contractions such as the dropping of ne in negative structures, je sais pas trop; incomplete sentences and reliance on non-verbal elements and vocal expression, Dis donc, t’es là? Je suis déjà là — t’es où toi?

• • recognising and responding to challenges associated with clarity and pace in audio texts such as station or airport announcements or recorded phone messages
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  recognising the diversity of spoken forms of French from region to region, such as les accents du Midi, l’accent parisien, toulousain, picard and from country to country le Québecois, la Réunion, considering concepts such as la norme, la diversité, l’intelligibilité and les élites in terms of how language variation can both reflect and shape social and cultural processes

• • applying appropriate pauses and pace of delivery to convey meaning, emphasis, feelings, emotion and create effects in spoken texts
• • using features and devices such as alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, simile and metaphor to extend and emphasis meaning in spoken texts

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: