AC9LH8U04 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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.

Elaborations

• • recognising the importance of learning and using different languages to access the cultural practices, beliefs, and values of others, and identifying assumptions and stereotypes, for example, associating Hindi speakers with a particular religion
• • identifying cultural distinctions using words and expressions that reflect family or community values, for example, forms of address such as नमस्कार, नमस्ते, आप कैसे हैं? तुम कैसे हो? or the practice of using the English terms ‘Auntie’ or ‘Uncle’ when addressing older people
• • identifying expressions used in news reports or sports commentaries that reflect traditional beliefs and include cultural connotations, for example, references to gods and legendary heroes, such as अगर इंद्रदेव की कृपा हुई तो भारत बिना मैच खेले पहुँचेगा फाइनल में
• • examining, in Hindi or English, how First Nations Australians’ languages have strong connections to Country/Place and how these can be compared to language variation across Hindi-speaking countries and regions/regional dialects
• • exploring how values and ideals such as truth, duty or loyalty are embedded in traditional Hindi fables and legends, such as brotherly love or the concept of the obedient/dutiful child in the stories राम और लक्ष्मण, श्रवण कुमार
• • reflecting on choices they make when interacting with friends who also speak both Hindi and English, identifying instances when they move between languages for either practical or cultural reasons, for example, using Hindi to talk about family experiences, rituals or relationships, using English to talk about schoolwork, music or films
• • discovering changes in Hindi language and culture over time and how they relate to identity, for example, the emergence of ‘Hinglish’ and new loan words used by younger generations

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: