AC9LK10U04 Year 9 Languages

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.

reflect on and evaluate how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values, and how these affect ways of communicating

Elaborations

• 1 reflecting on own cultural identity in terms of family background, community relationships and contact with languages, including contact with Korean and other languages and cultures, tracking changes over time or context
• 2 becoming aware of their use of Korean and adjusting language use to suit the context, such as feeling comfortable with some silence during conversations or learning to be indirect when making refusals, for example, 잘 모르겠는데요 and 글쎄요
• 3 discussing how texts (films, dramas, plays, songs, etc.) portray social issues and values such as conflict in relationships, poverty, loyalty and humility
• 4 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
• 5 considering aspects of personal experiences with intercultural communication, such as repair and recovery strategies in communication, and responses to and insights gained through interactions
• 6 reflecting on how world views of a culture are reflected in and shaped by the way people use everyday language, such as different ways to answer negative questions in Korean and English, for example, 숙제를 안 했어요?, 아니요, 했어요/네, 안 했어요, or different perspectives involved in the use of 가다 and 오다, for example, 파티에 갈 거예요. 나하고 같이 가겠어요? 빨리 올래요?, 지금 가요
• 7 analysing how the Korean language may reflect cultural perspectives and values such as collectivism, harmony, humility and the importance of ties between family members
• 8 investigating the origins of particular expressions or words, developing awareness of the origins of their meanings and how these may or may not change over time, for example, 식사 하셨어요? 좋은 아침입니다.

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