AC9LF10U04 Year 9 Languages

AC9LF10U04 – Year 9 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 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.

Content Descriptor

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

Elaborations

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interpreting gestures used by French speakers to signal meanings Parfait! C’est fini comparing with gestures used in Australian English and other known languages, and incorporating some of them into their own language use
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reflecting on the impact of regional and cultural diversity on French-speaking communities and how this is évident in expressions such as la France gastronomique: la choucroute d’Alsace, la quiche Lorraine, le bœuf bourguignon, la tapenade Provençale; la Polynésie: les cinq archipels, les ȋles et les atolls
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shifting from the use of vous to tu to signal a closer relationship and using first name
• 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 for a group of French-speaking visitors at a school assembly
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explaining to non-French speakers the expressions and cultural allusions encountered in French texts associated with historical, religious or civic events or traditions such as la Marianne, le tricolore, la Toussaint, le 1er mai
• understanding the power of language to influence people’s actions and beliefs, for example, analysing language used in community appeals in response to natural disasters
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understanding how language variation can reflect cultural and social identity, inclusion or exclusion, for example, inclusive language of political speeches, Nous les pères et les mères des futurs citoyens de notre belle France …

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• reflecting on how learning French has given them insight into the close connection between language and culture and evaluating how their own assumptions have changed
• exploring intercultural communication, considering how their own cultural ways of thinking and behaving affect attitudes and influence other people’s responses or interpretations and how they change over time

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANFREF10Y910

Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students contribute to and extend interactions in French language in increasingly unfamiliar contexts related to a wide range of interests and issues. They interpret texts by evaluating and synthesising information, ideas and perspectives. They show understanding of how features of language can be used to influence audience response. They create texts, selecting and manipulating language for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. They apply and use complex sentences and structures to create and respond to spoken and written texts. They use a variety of tenses to sequence events and use language devices to enhance meaning and cohesion.Students incorporate the features and conventions of spoken French to extend fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the conventions of spoken and written texts and the connections between them. They apply knowledge of language structures and features to make and predict meaning. They support analysis of French texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own cultural perspectives and identity, and draw on their experience of learning French, to evaluate how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.