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AC9LH6U04: Year 5 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture
AC9LH6U04 Year 5 Languages

AC9LH6U04 – Year 5 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 5 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

recognise that language reflects cultural practices, values and identity, and that this impacts on non-verbal, spoken and written communication

Elaborations

  • • developing an understanding of the relationship between languages and cultures, and intercultural communication, in different contexts, for example, discussing the need to apply distinctions such as तू जा, तुम जाओ, आप जाइए, or using forms of language to show respect or status
  • • explaining ways in which the Hindi language reflects values and traditions of Indian communities, for example, understanding concepts such as सत्संग, घूँघट, लंगर, भंडारा
  • • researching Hindi-speaking communities, such as in Fiji or Mauritius, inviting special guests or showcasing their learning about cultural aspects of these communities
  • • exploring, in Hindi or English, how language and culture are expressed through First Nations Australians’ song, dance or artworks, considering similarities and differences in an aspect of the cultural expressions of Hindi-speaking people or communities
  • • identifying adjustments, they make when moving between languages, for example, different ways of addressing people, expressing affection or respect, discussing why these adjustments are necessary and whether they are easy to make
  • • identifying influences from other languages and cultures, such as changes to contemporary forms of Hindi due to the influence of globalisation, technology and pop culture, and exploring the relationship between Hindi and English across different historical and cultural contexts, for example, the emergence of ‘Hinglish’
  • • brainstorming cultural, spiritual and linguistic influences of Hindi language and culture on other languages and cultures, such as the use of words and concepts of ‘karma’ ‘guru’ ‘Dharma,’ ‘Nirvana’ and ‘Bollywood’
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  • • becoming aware of cultural stereotypes that can lead to generalisations and misconceptions such as associating the same language, culture and religion with all Indian people
  • • investigating their own family heritage and background through talking with relatives, to discover more about migration and reflecting on how this can contribute to the formation of their own identity
  • • understanding the meaning of ‘culture’, how it involves visible elements such as language, symbols, food, national costumes and dancing, and invisible elements such as attitudes, beliefs and values, and comparing these visible and invisible elements of Hindi culture

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASLANHINF10Y56
Year 5 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 6, students initiate and use strategies to maintain interactions in Hindi language that are related to their immediate environment. They use appropriate sound combinations, intonation and rhythm in spoken texts. They collaborate in spoken and written activities that involve the language of planning and problem-solving to share information, ideas and preferences. They use strategies to locate and interpret information and ideas in texts, and demonstrate understanding by responding in Hindi or English, adjusting their response to context, purpose and audience. They create texts, selecting and using a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures, and Devanāgarī script, to suit context. They sequence information and ideas, and use conventions appropriate to text type. Students apply rules for pronunciation and intonation in spoken Hindi. They apply conventions of spelling and punctuation, and use modelled structures, when creating and responding in Hindi. They compare language structures and features in Hindi and English, using some metalanguage. They show understanding of how some language reflects cultural practices and consider how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.