AC9LIN8U03 Year 7 Languages

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.

reflect on similarities and differences between Indonesian and English language structures and features, using metalanguage

Elaborations

• 1

  reflecting that Indonesian may use gender-neutral language such as pacar, dia and nya and that these cannot be translated with equivalence without contextual clues

• 2

  understanding that Indonesian uses classifiers such as kota, pulau and pantai to categorise a place

• 3 discussing language features such as word order, base words and affixations, using relevant metalanguage such as verbs, adjectives, nouns and pronouns
• 4 comparing the forms, features and purpose of Indonesian and English texts, such as how texts are organised in terms of layout, sequencing of ideas, headings and stylistic devices
• 5

  understanding that Indonesian has been influenced by other languages, for example, pilot (English), mie (Chinese), sepatu (Portuguese), kantor (Dutch), guru (Sanskrit), sahabat (Arabic), raja (Hindi)

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