AC9LG10EU04 Years 9 to 10 Languages

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

• • Elaboration reflecting on how learning German impacts on own assumptions about German language, culture and identity, for example, through personal journals and group discussions
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration 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
• • Elaboration considering the interaction of German and other languages within constantly changing environments due to globalisation, technology, and language shifts and exchange
• • Elaboration 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