AC9LK8EU04 Year 7 Languages

AC9LK8EU04 – Year 7 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 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.

Content Descriptor

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

Elaborations

• participating in guided discussion of the roles of and relationships between culture and language, with reference to Korean, English and other known languages
• 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
• 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 …’
• 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
• 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
• 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
• discussing, questioning and explaining understanding of other cultures, including Korean culture, without stereotyping

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• understanding the significance of social conventions and cultural concepts, for example, using 식사를 하셨어요? as a greeting
• exploring how politeness is expressed differently in Korean and English language, for example, the importance of age and levels of formality

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANKOR7_10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students use Korean language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions, and recognise familiar gestures, questions and instructions in exchanges. They recognise relationships between spoken and written forms. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in Korean or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, and modelled sentence and grammatical structures to create texts in hangeul, with support. Students approximate pronunciation and intonation in spoken Korean. They recognise the function of hangeul and demonstrate understanding that Korean has conventions and rules for non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of Korean and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the Korean language is connected with culture and identity, and that this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.