AC9LG10EU04 Year 9 Languages

AC9LG10EU04 – 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 explain how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values, and how these affect ways of communicating

Elaborations

• reflecting on how learning German impacts on own assumptions about German language, culture and identity, for example, through personal journals and group discussions
• analysing how language use and culture reflect and construct relationships, practices and attitudes, including expressions and concepts in German, for example, the changing use of the familiar and formal forms, and the impacts of migration and the increasing use of words from other languages in German language
• considering how the experience of learning a new language impacts on their awareness of their own communicative and cultural behaviours and of how these may be interpreted by others
• reflecting on and explaining the protocols required to authentically co-create an Acknowledgement of Country/Place with a First Nations Australian, to present in German to a group of German-speaking visitors at a school assembly
• considering the interaction of German and other languages within constantly changing environments due to globalisation, technology, and language shifts and exchange
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considering how language reflects values and attitudes such as respect and equality, and includes and excludes, for example, the use of titles or first names such as Herr Doktor Schmidt, Herr Schmidt, Georg, or the gendered nature of professional titles der Lehrer, die Lehrerin, die Lehrkraft, das Kindermädchen

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANGER7_10Y910

Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students initiate and sustain German language to exchange and compare ideas and experiences about their own and others’ personal worlds. They communicate using non-verbal, spoken and written language to collaborate, plan and reflect on activities and events. They interpret and analyse information and ideas in texts and demonstrate understanding of different perspectives. They synthesise information and respond in German or English, adjusting language to convey meaning and to suit context, purpose and audience. They use structures and features of spoken and written German to create texts. Students apply features and conventions of spoken German to enhance fluency. They select and apply knowledge of language conventions, structures and features to interact, make meaning and create texts. They support discussion of structures and features of texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own language use and cultural identity, and draw on their experience of learning German, to discuss how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.