AC9LG10U03 Year 9 Languages

AC9LG10U03 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

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.

Content Descriptor

reflect on and evaluate German texts, using metalanguage to analyse language structures and features

Elaborations

• identifying and evaluating how grammatical choices, words and images combine in a text to achieve particular intentions and effects, for example, the positioning of the reader in advertisements by the use of personal pronouns, imperative/interrogative verb forms and emotive language and aspirational images
• applying knowledge of text structure and organisation and the interrelationship of context, purpose and audience to assist in comprehension of texts and in creating own texts, for example, a persuasive letter to the editor for a local newspaper, an entertaining dialogue for children or adolescents
• investigating contemporary imaginative texts such as in popular films, short stories, poetry or drama performances in German, using metalanguage to discuss language and features and to identify themes and issues
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extending understanding of metalanguage to communicate in German and English about case, verb tenses and moods, for example, Genitiv, Imperfekt, Konjunktiv II
• reflecting on ways in which the level of formality in a text may be decreased, such as by using contractions and slang, for example, in an informal conversation or email, or increased, by applying key features such as appropriate layout and structure, formal register and subordinate clauses
• recognising ways in which written language is different from spoken language, for example, in being more planned, precise, elaborated and complex, using interrelated clauses and support detail in paragraphs
• identifying and commenting on techniques and linguistic choices which build action, develop character and position the reader, using modelled descriptive and analytic language

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANGERF10Y910

Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students contribute to and extend interactions in German 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 German 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 German texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own cultural perspectives and identity, and draw on their experience of learning German, to evaluate how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.