AC9LK10EU03 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding systems of language

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

Elaborations

• • analysing differences in register and style when using language in different contexts, and how grammatical choices, words and images combine in texts to achieve particular purposes and effects, for example, using 나 instead of 저 in an advertisement to appeal to a certain target audience
• • writing a rationale for a short student-created print or digital text, with a focus on evaluating the strategies used to achieve their purpose, for example, using casual language to appeal to a younger audience
• • interpreting, explaining and using textual conventions such as contractions, abbreviations and acronyms in text messages, for example, discussing in English how acronyms or short forms of words are used in Korean and how these forms reflect people’s changing lifestyles
• • exploring and identifying basic cohesive devices in texts, such as consistent use of the informal polite ending –어/아요 and the agreement of honorific elements such as particles, words and suffixes in a sentence, for example, 선생님께 꽃을 드려요, 할머니께서 주무세요, 그분은 누구세요?
• • evaluating the purpose of conjunctive adverbs, for example, 그런데, 그래서, 그러면, 그렇지만, 하지만 and conjunctive suffixes such as clausal connectives, –고, –어/아서, –(으)면
• • analysing linguistic choices in situations of potential conflict involving an apology and acceptance, for example, comparing 죄송합니다 and 미안합니다

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: