AC9LIN6U04 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 comparing the impact of gestures across cultures, for example, beckoning by pointing with index finger or with palm down, touching top of head, or laughing loudly, and noticing own comfort with these
• 2

  describing ways of showing politeness, for example, avoiding giving a negative answer as a way of saving face, or softening negatives by using belum or kurang

• 3 recognising that their language use reflects their own cultural perspective and experiences, for example, ‘school camp’, ‘the bush’, ‘footy’
• 4 exploring, in Indonesian 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 Indonesian-speaking people or communities
• 5

  exploring exchange of terms between Indonesian and First Nations Australian languages, such as the use of Makassan terms in Yolngu, for example, balanda, rupiah, nenek

• 6

  noticing how regional language, ethnic group and religious affiliation can influence use of Indonesian language, for example, assalamualaikum in greetings, Selamat Hari Paskah

• 7 understanding that Indonesian as a national language enables communication across diverse groups of people and languages, and is part of national identity
• 8 reflecting on what they have learnt about Indonesian cultures through learning Indonesian and noticing how their assumptions might have changed

Related Achievement Standards