AC9LIT6U04 Year 5 Languages

AC9LIT6U04 – Year 5 Languages: Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture

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.

Content Descriptor

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

Elaborations

• listening to or viewing short skits of Italians speaking to develop an awareness of different dialects and language variations spoken in Italy and used in Italian-speaking communities in Italy and in the diaspora, for example, observing and listening to the accents of Italians from different regions in Italy or different Italian-speaking communities in the world and noticing the use of gestures
• comparing language use in similar social situations in Italian and English
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exploring with the teacher aspects of Italian culture that may create comfort/discomfort with the ideas and language used by others such as farsi il bidet
• exploring how language and culture are expressed through First Nations Australians’ song, dance or artworks, considering similarities and differences with an aspect of the cultural expressions of Italian-speaking people or communities
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recognising experiences of the Italian language and culture being located in and intertwined with the language and culture of English speakers in Australia, for example, in shop signs Barbiere, Panificio, Macelleria, Farmacia, Moda, Cibo, Fiori, Assaggio
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comparing words that they have heard in their home and/or community to words learnt in class and noticing that there are different dialects in Italian, for example, observing that bambino in Italian is equivalent to picciriddu in Sicilian dialect
• discussing some generalisations about Italian and Australian people and reflecting on their own experiences

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• comparing their own ways of using language with those of peers, thinking about how family and community shape identity and communication, for example, using more than one language, celebrating or expressing feelings in various ways, considering whether learning and using Italian has an impact on identity either in or out of the classroom
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explaining to others the significance of some Italian cultural practices and events (greetings, mealtimes, school or family routines, etc.) and concepts and values, and recognising cultural differences in their interpretation of meaning, for example, Qual è la differenza? Capisco ma non sono d’accordo.

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASLANITAF10Y56

Year 5 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 6, students initiate and use strategies to maintain interactions in Italian language that are related to their immediate environment. They use appropriate sound combinations, intonation, and rhythm in spoken texts. They collaborate in spoken and written activities that involve the language of planning and problem-solving to share information, ideas and preferences. They use strategies to locate and interpret information and ideas in texts, and demonstrate understanding by responding in Italian or English, adjusting their response to context, purpose and audience. They create texts, selecting and using a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures to suit context. They sequence information and ideas, and use conventions appropriate to text type.Students apply rules for pronunciation and intonation, spelling and punctuation, and modelled structures, when creating and responding in Italian. They compare language structures and features in Italian and English, using some metalanguage. They show understanding of how some language reflects cultural practices and consider how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.