AC9LK8C04 – Year 7 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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

• • making appropriate language choices with awareness of social situations such as using 선생님 to address a person older than themselves respectfully, and limited use of second- and third-person pronouns 너/당신 and 그/그녀 to refer to others
• • identifying culture-specific words and expressions such as 세배하다, 성묘하다, 추석, 새해 복 많이 받으세요, 수고했어요 when translating texts, choosing ‘best fit’ words or omitting words where necessary
• • translating existing texts or texts produced by self and others into Korean and English, using and evaluating translation resources such as online translation tools and print or online dictionaries
• • paraphrasing or annotating words or expressions where equivalence is not possible, discussing their original meanings and how to convey them, for example, 정들었어요, ‘mufti day’, 답답해요, 눈치가 없어요, 애교, 어이없어
• • comparing different versions of translations, reflecting on the differences in translation of the same text and identifying possible reasons for differences
• • investigating and comparing the original and new uses of loan words that have been incorporated into the Korean language, for example, 아이돌, 미팅, 다이어트

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: