AC9LK8EU04 Year 7 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.

recognise how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values

Elaborations

• 1 participating in guided discussion of the roles of and relationships between culture and language, with reference to Korean, English and other known languages
• 2 viewing interactions in Korean between peers or in multimodal texts such as a movie segment, noticing and recording cultural similarities and differences between interactions in Korean and in their own culture(s), for example, comparing similarities and differences between cultures using a Venn diagram
• 3 identifying words which have similar meanings and pronunciation across different languages, reflecting on the possible origins and cultural associations of such words, for example, 엄마, ‘mum’, ‘mama …’
• 4 examining, in Korean or English, how First Nations Australians’ languages have strong connections to Country/Place locations and how these can be compared with language variations across Korean-speaking communities
• 5 identifying non-verbal expressions taken for granted in communication in different cultures, for example, making or avoiding eye contact depending on the social context, bowing to an older person, nodding to show agreement, pointing and beckoning with appropriate hand gestures
• 6 reflecting on the cultural associations of individual Korean words which may be interpreted differently by people who do not know Korean culture, for example, 우리 ‘our’ can be used for 우리 선생님 ‘my teacher’, 우리 나라 ‘my country’, and kinship terms such as 형, 오빠, 누나, 언니 are often used to address other people
• 7 discussing, questioning and explaining understanding of other cultures, including Korean culture, without stereotyping
• 8 understanding the significance of social conventions and cultural concepts, for example, using 식사를 하셨어요? as a greeting
• 9 exploring how politeness is expressed differently in Korean and English language, for example, the importance of age and levels of formality

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