AC9LK10EU04 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture

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

• • interacting with Korean-speaking people, noticing social norms and practices such as the social use of kinship terms, personal space, gender roles, respect for people older than themselves, boyfriend or girlfriend relationships, same-sex hand-holding, and acceptable topics of conversation, for example, 몇 살이에요? and considering own reactions to these practices
• • describing their experience of in person or secure virtual interaction involving Korean language and culture, for example, face-to-face interaction with community members through excursions or at Korean festivals, web-chatting or other forms of social networking
• • monitoring, recording and reflecting on intercultural experiences, examining aspects that were expected or unexpected, comfortable or uncomfortable, successful or unsuccessful, and considering possible reasons for their own reactions, for example, students reflect on how they feel when they bow as a greeting
• • reflecting on and explaining the protocols required to authentically co-create an Acknowledgement of Country/Place with a First Nations Australian, to present in Korean to a group of Korean-speaking visitors at a school assembly
• • recognising that social values such as politeness can be expressed differently in different cultures, and understanding features of Korean etiquette that may not be confined to language, for example, avoiding direct refusal, waiting to be invited to eat or drink and expressing gratitude through actions rather than words, for example, limited use of 고맙습니다 and 감사합니다
• • gathering examples of language(s) used by various people in different contexts, including the Korean language spoken in different social/age groups and in different places, and discussing how the examples reveal aspects of identity
• • discussing the challenges and rewards they experience during intercultural interactions and how learning and using Korean has challenged their own preconceptions or stereotypes and helped them to revise their own attitudes

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: