AC9LK2U04 Year 1 Languages

AC9LK2U04 – Year 1 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 1 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

notice that people use language in ways that reflect cultural practices

Elaborations

• understanding that the world contains many different languages spoken by many different communities of speakers and that many people in the world speak more than one language
• comparing gestures and body language associated with language use in different cultures, for example, bowing and saying 안녕하세요? when greeting in Korean, learning different ways of kissing on the cheek when saying ‘bonjour’ in French-speaking cultures, and understanding ‘hongi’, pressing noses, and saying ‘kia-ora’ in a traditional Māori greeting
• noticing changes in behaviour or body language when speaking Korean, for example, passing an object to the teacher using 2 hands while saying 선생님, 여기 있어요
• exploring symbols and languages used by First Nations Australians and by Korean-speaking communities in a range of contexts, for example, identifying the colours of flags in Korean and discussing what the colours represent in English
• naming languages they have encountered in everyday life, for example, conducting a class survey to create a list of the languages spoken by their neighbours or classmates

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

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Year 1 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 2, students use Korean language to interact and share information related to the classroom and themselves. They use cues to respond to questions and instructions, and use simple formulaic language. They locate and convey key items of information in texts using non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They use familiar words and modelled language to create texts. They copy some hangeul appropriate to context. Students imitate the sounds and rhythms of spoken Korean. They demonstrate understanding that Korean has conventions and rules for non-verbal communication, pronunciation and writing, and begin to identify hangeul. They give examples of similarities and differences between some features of Korean and English. They understand that language is connected with culture(s), and notice how this is reflected in their own language(s) and culture(s).