AC9LINF02 Foundation Languages

This Content Descriptor from Foundation 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.

explore, with support, language features of Indonesian noticing similarities and differences between Indonesian and English

Elaborations

• 1 noticing that Indonesian has the same alphabet as English, for example, singing displayed alphabet songs, sequencing alphabet cards
• 2 tracing letters and simple words in both Indonesian and English, noticing similarities and differences
• 3 repeating words and phrases to imitate authentic Indonesian pronunciation, intonation and rhythm, and clapping or tapping
• 4 observing similarities in raising intonation at end of questions and understanding the difference between statements, questions and exclamations
• 5

  exploring differences in onomatopoeia for animal sounds in Indonesian and other languages represented in the classroom, for example, gong-gong (woof, woof), meong (miaow)

• 6 recognising that Indonesian uses different words for cardinal numbers and sequencing number cards in Indonesian or matching a numeral with an Indonesian word
• 7

  recognising words that have been borrowed from Indonesian, for example, rambutan, orangutan

• 8

  noticing Indonesian words that have been borrowed from English, and recognising sound differences, for example, favorit and ‘favourite’; kelas and ‘class’

• 9

  observing noun+adjective word order differences, for example, kucing hitam, mobil merah, bis besar

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