AC9LIN10U04 Year 9 Languages

AC9LIN10U04 – Year 9 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 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 how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values, and how these affect ways of communicating

Elaborations

• identifying and evaluating ways in which texts such as films, plays and songs convey social issues and values
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understanding that many Indonesians may be bilingual or multilingual, for example, bahasa baku, bahasa Sunda, Bahasa Minahasa, bahasa gaul, and English and can move between these languages depending on the context
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noticing how jargon or specific terms may be used to express membership and identity, such as within the religious groups, for example, Insya’allah, Puji Tuhan, Syukur, Alhamdulilah, Om swastiastu, sesajen
• reflecting on and explaining the protocols required to authentically co-create an Acknowledgement of Country/Place with a First Nations Australian, to present in Indonesian to a group of Indonesian-speaking visitors at a school assembly
• analysing and discussing how the linguistic diversity of Indonesia reveals cultural diversity, and reflecting on how this is also relevant to the linguistic and cultural diversity in Australia, including that of First Nations Australians
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analysing how the Indonesian language may reflect cultural perspectives such as collectivism, harmony, belief in fate and humility, for example, setahu saya, kalau saya tidak salah, numpang tanya, permisi dulu; and the use of kami meaning saya in Hormat kami, Kami mohon maaf yang sebesar-besarnya atas …, Belum bertemu jodoh
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considering the cultural significance of experiences and events that shape identity, such as potong gigi, sweet 17th birthdays and graduation, and how this is reflected in language, for example, how young people may introduce themselves, Saya sudah tamat sekolah. Dia sudah akil baliq.

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANINDF10Y910

Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard

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