AC9LK4C04 – Year 3 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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

• • participating appropriately in familiar situations (greetings, self-introductions, etc.) and identifying the different uses of language in specific contexts, for example, using polite informal forms 저는 민수예요 and 네 with the teacher and 나는 민수야 and 응 with peers
• • translating Korean texts such as ‘please knock’, 노크하세요, understanding how meaning changes when translated into English and how some Korean expressions demonstrate cultural differences
• • producing bilingual word lists or flashcards by identifying known Korean words or expressions and relating them to English equivalents and vice versa, noticing that direct translation sometimes does not work
• • discovering individual words and expressions which may be interpreted differently by people who do not know Korean culture, for example, 우리 집, 우리 선생님
• • watching interactions in Korean and identifying appropriate gestures that accompany language, for example, passing objects with both hands to show respect to a teacher or visitor to the school
• • identifying words that change their meaning such as 집 home/house, depending on its context, for example, 집에 가요 “I’m going home”, versus 우리 집이에요 “This is our house”
• • exploring descriptions in Korean and English for familiar topics, identifying vocabulary with similarities or differences in meaning between the 2 languages, for example, a description about a friend 수미는 착해요; 착한 아이예요 meaning good in English and good, nice and kind in Korean

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: