AC9LK8U03 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language

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

• • analysing forms, features and purposes of texts, such as how texts are organised in terms of layout, sequencing of ideas, headings and stylistic devices
• • identifying linguistic/textual features used in specific text types, for example, different degrees of formality and flexibility expressed in conversations, speeches, letters, emails and text messages
• • recognising how language use, such as the level of politeness, reflects the intention of the speaker or author and impacts on the development of relationships, for example, switching from a polite style to a casual style, 저를 좋아해요?, 나 좋아해?
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  reflecting on ways people, places and experiences are expressed in imaginative texts, and comparing them with those expressed in own and peers’ work and in the work of artists or authors encountered in other learning areas, such as the arts, English or history, for example, 아리랑, Waltzing Matilda

• • comparing contemporary Korean and Australian music popular among young people by listening to music, viewing video clips, reading print or online music magazines and identifying similarities and differences in expressions, themes and styles of performance
• • experimenting with language appropriate to specific text types in print or digital media, such as descriptive language in documentaries, reflective language in diaries and journal entries, and persuasive language in advertisements
• • comparing language structures in Korean and English and how these are used to create affinity or distance, for example, the use of 반말 or colloquial language

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: