AC9LF10U04 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 evaluate how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), beliefs, attitudes and values and how these affect ways of communicating

Elaborations

• 1

  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

• 2

  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

• 3

  shifting from the use of vous to tu to signal a closer relationship and using first name

• 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 for a group of French-speaking visitors at a school assembly
• 5

  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

• 6 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
• 7

  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 …

• 8 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
• 9 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

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