AC9LIN8EU03 Year 7 Languages

AC9LIN8EU03 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding systems of language

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.

Content Descriptor

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

Elaborations

• understanding subject+verb+object sentence construction in Indonesian and English, noting word order of nouns and adjective and the absence of the verb ‘to be’
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identifying loan words, for example, taksi, om, salam
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understanding that Indonesian uses adverbs of time and frequency to indicate tense, whereas English uses verb conjugation, for example sedang, sudah, belum
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recognising that both Indonesian and English use prefixes and suffixes to change the meaning of words, for example, me-, ber-, -an, pe-an, -lah
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understanding that Indonesian uses classifiers such as kota, pulau and pantai to categorise a place
• comparing similarities in key features of Indonesian and English texts such as stories, songs and conversations

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANIND7_10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students use Indonesian language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions, and recognise familiar gestures, questions and instructions in exchanges. They recognise relationships between spoken and written forms. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in Indonesian or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, and modelled sentence and grammatical structures to create texts. Students approximate pronunciation and intonation in spoken Indonesian. They demonstrate understanding that Indonesian has conventions and rules for non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of Indonesian and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the Indonesian language is connected with culture and identity, and that this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.