AC9LIN6U03 Year 5 Languages

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.

compare some Indonesian language structures and features with those of English, using some familiar metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1

  comparing language use in similar social situations in Indonesian and English, for example, Wkwkwk and LOL in text messaging, and salutations in emails and letters

• 2

  recognising that Indonesian is influenced by other languages and cultures, for example, wortel (Dutch), bakso (Chinese), kriket (English), magrib (Arabic), salam (Arabic)

• 3 identifying the use of loan words from other languages in texts such as advertisements and popular music to suggest values such as ‘modern’, ‘sophisticated’ and ‘educated’
• 4

  understanding that word order, rather than word form, determines personal and possessive pronouns, for example, saya guru and guru saya

• 5

  understanding that ‘please’ in English has a different Indonesian equivalent depending on context, for example, silakan, tolong, coba

• 6

  developing understanding of how different text types use linguistic features to create effects, for example, superlatives in advertisements designed to persuade (terbaru, paling sehat), the imperative in signs designed to advise or prohibit (Dilarang), salutations in emails designed to maintain relationships (yang baik, salam dari)

• 7

  understanding that the forms used for giving instructions vary depending on the social situation, for example, duduk, duduklah, silakan duduk

• 8

  observing how different degrees of formality are expressed when making requests, for example, Minta, Mohon, Boleh minta ..., Bolehkah?

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