AC9LRF10U01 Year 9 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 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.

apply features and conventions of spoken [Language] to extend fluency in responding to and creating texts in familiar and unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

• 1 applying authentic pitch, rhythm, stress, pronunciation and intonation modelled on [Language] speech in spoken texts, for example, in Ngarrindjeri the first syllable of a word is stressed
• 2 recognising and reproducing the rhythm of extended sentences, such as the correct pausing for clauses in a complex sentence for effect
• 3 practising complex sounds for fluency using tongue twisters
• 4

  listening to and/or viewing excerpts of authentic texts in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts, and identifying pronunciation patterns, for example, pronunciation of phonemes g, gg in Gangulu – mungu munggu; rolling of r or rr in Ngarrindjeri and meaning of word; sound of dh and tj

• 5 understanding the major place of articulation categories in Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages, for example, articulation at lip or soft palate, involving the flat of the tongue and position of the tongue in relation to teeth, and obstructing the air passage with tip of the tongue, and recognising their realisation across different languages and regions in Australia
• 6 using their knowledge of alphabetic conventions for Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages to transcribe spoken texts from a range of languages, for example, those related to the [Language] or those from neighbouring regions
• 7 understand and apply the conventions or rules for consonants, vowels (short, long blend) and diphthongs

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