AC9LK4U04 – Year 3 Languages: Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture

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

• 1 discussing the influence of Korean on other languages and the influence of other languages such as Chinese, Japanese, English, French and Italian on Korean, over time
• 2 recognising the different ways of naming, greeting and addressing someone, for example, by first name or title, including the selective use of honorifics and aspects of body language such as making or avoiding eye contact
• 3 reflecting on different ways of communicating and their appropriateness in Korean or non-Korean contexts, for example, using 언니/누나 and 오빠/형 for older siblings in Korean versus using their first names in English as terms of address
• 4 exploring representations of information used in cultural expressions of First Nations Australians and making connections with those of Korean language and culture, for example, discovering different regional words used by First Nations groups to identify themselves, such as Zenadth Kes, Koori, Koorie, Noongar and Nunga, and finding out if similar identification occurs in Korean-speaking cultural groups
• 5 sharing ideas about how some Australian terms and expressions might be understood or confusing from a Korean perspective, for example, ‘bushwalking’ or ‘kick a footy’

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