AC9LIT8U04 Year 7 Languages

AC9LIT8U04 – Year 7 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 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

reflect on and explain how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), beliefs, attitudes and values

Elaborations

• reflecting on how their own cultural etiquette may be interpreted when interacting with Italian people, noticing their own body language and gestures, for example, understanding how the Australian tendency to be informal with people of all ages may be misinterpreted
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understanding the significance of cultural concepts and how these relate to social conventions and are reflected in language use, for example, Cin cin! Salute! Buon onomastico!
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discussing culturally significant concepts encountered in texts, for example, Fare bella figura. Fare brutta figura. Andare a trovare qualcuno and making comparisons with Australian culture
• examining how First Nations Australians’ languages have strong connections to Country/Place and how these can be compared to regional dialects and variations in Italy and language variation across Italian-speaking communities
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observing the connection between some names and religion, regional and family connections, for example, Maria, Giuseppe, Pasquale, Natale, Annunziata, Concetta, Addolorata; da Vinci, di Giovanni; di Paolo
• reflecting on how the study of Italian has given them an understanding of the value of communicating within and across languages, and discussing the interrelationship between Italian, English and other languages, and how this has changed their perception about who they are and how they communicate
• selecting and reflecting on aspects of the Italian language and culture that could easily be adopted in Australia, and explaining the reasons for their choices

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• considering how one’s own ideas, practices and responses may be perceived by Italians in Italy and in Australia
• sharing with peers, examples of how language reflects their beliefs, attitudes and values and how these are connected to identity

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANITAF10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students initiate and maintain interactions in Italian language in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to a range of interests and experiences. They use Italian to collaborate and problem-solve, and adjust language in response to others. They interpret information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences between languages, in both familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts, by adjusting and reorganising responses. They select and use vocabulary, sentence structures and expressions to create texts.Students apply the conventions of spoken Italian to develop fluency. They demonstrate understanding that spoken, written and multimodal texts use different language conventions, structures and features to convey meaning. They comment on structures and features of Italian text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how the Italian language, culture and identity are interconnected, and compare this with their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.