AC9LG10U04 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), attitudes, beliefs and values, and how these affect ways of communicating

Elaborations

• 1 explaining aspects of cultural experiences and reflecting on cultural similarities and differences that are manifested through language, for example, the origin and significance of traditions in country and community festivals, exchange visits or excursions to locations of cultural and historic relevance
• 2

  reflecting on and explaining aspects of language and cultural behaviour, evaluating how own language choices may be perceived by German speakers and making adjustments to enhance meaning, for example, the overuse of ‘polite’ phrases such as Können Sie mir bitte …? and Aber meiner Meinung nach … rather than expressing wishes or responding to a suggestion in a more direct manner

• 3 reflecting on learning and using German to connect across communities and cultures, and how language can be affected by breakdowns or breakthroughs in communication, and discussing repair and recovery strategies and insights gained
• 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 German to a group of German-speaking visitors at a school assembly
• 5

  reflecting on how learning German impacts their assumptions about language, culture or identity, and their own communicative and cultural behaviours and how these may be interpreted by others, for example, Früher dachte ich, dass die Schweizer … Jetzt verstehe ich, dass …

• 6 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
• 7 exploring the reciprocal nature of intercultural communication, responding to differences in perceptions, understandings or behaviours, for example, attitudes to interruptions, personal space and physical contact, and adjustments of formality
• 8

  examining how language can reinforce stereotypes such as those related to gender, and how changes in language occur over time to combat this, for example, die Krankenschwester, der Krankenpfleger, die Krankenpflegerin; die Stewardess, der Flugbegleiter, die Flugbegleiterin

• 9

  considering how language indicates respect, values and attitudes, and includes and excludes, for example, the use of titles or first names, Herr Doktor Schmidt, Herr Schmidt, Georg, different words for the same entity foreigner/immigrant/refugee, and access to community information for non-English speakers

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