AC9LH10U04 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 researching important cultural symbols and icons and how they relate to identity and national pride, such as symbols from religion, festivals, historical events or folklore and legends, for example, तिलक, ॐ, तिरंगा, गाय
• 2 discussing whether being bilingual or multilingual contributes to a more flexible sense of identity in ways that involve culture as well as language
• 3 appreciating that many Hindi speakers may also use other languages such as Bengalis, Punjabi, Marathi, Gujarati and Telugu, and this may form part of their identity, values and beliefs
• 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 Hindi for a group of Hindi-speaking visitors at a school assembly
• 5 examining reactions to different perceptions and expectations around similar and different cultural practices in Hindi and Australian contexts, for example, the concept of personal space, greetings and gestures, accepting and refusing offers, gift giving, celebrating and special events
• 6 evaluating words such as अहिंसा, धर्म-कर्म that carry cultural connotations, values and attitudes which may be used differently by people in different cultural contexts and noting the relative importance of concepts such as परिवार, समुदाय और सहयोग
• 7 analysing contemporary life in diverse Hindi-speaking communities, regions and countries such as India, Fiji, Nepal, Mauritius, Suriname, Guyana, for example, through viewing excerpts from films, documentaries and interviews, and reflecting on similarities and differences from own lifestyle, practices and traditions
• 8 analysing their own cultural and linguistic biographies through talking to relatives to discover more about family heritage, migration and history and reflecting on how this can contribute to understanding their culture, identity and family traditions such as celebrating particular festivals or superstitious or spiritual beliefs
• 9 recognising ways in which genres of written literary Hindi may differ from everyday speech registers, and how they are influenced by local customs, cultures and regional languages, for example, the use of Sanskrit words in official Hindi, with terms like निर्माण क्षेत्र for the manufacturing sector

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