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AC9LRF10U02 Years 9 to 10 Languages

AC9LRF10U02 | Years 9 to 10 Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages: Understanding systems of language

Content Descriptor

Content descriptor apply knowledge of grammatical structures and features to predict meaning and compose texts that contain some complex structures and ideas

Language revival · Foundation to Year 10 sequence

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 9 to 10 Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages · Language revival · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Elaborations

  • • Elaboration using correct word order such as verb+tense indicator+pronoun in an information-gap activity
  • • Elaboration understanding and using free word order or structure to make meaning, for example, subject+object+verb or object+verb+subject, using the appropriate case marker for the object/receiver of the action
  • • Elaboration using placemats as a reference to vocabulary, phrases, expressions, and linguistic features such as nouns, verbs, suffixes
  • • Elaboration explaining how verbs can be changed into nouns by using appropriate suffixes
  • • Elaboration adding suffixes to verb stems to identify the action and to determine the tense and number, for example, past, present and future, and singular, dual and plural
  • • Elaboration understanding the role of suffixes in case and case marking for nouns, pronouns and adjectives, for example, I came from Mount Morgan, The dog goes to the old tree, The boy is standing next to the tree, The vicious dog bit the little girl, or equivalent in [Language]
  • • Elaboration taking existing words and creating new words using suffixes
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  • • Elaboration forming nouns, pronouns and bound pronouns and adjectives
  • • Elaboration understanding and applying the rules of the different verb categories, for example, verb-stem morphology, including compound verbs, reduplicated verbs, habitual and characteristic verbs, and transitive and intransitive verbs
  • • Elaboration understanding that verbs have different functions such as causative, inchoative (the beginning of an action such as to fall silent, to get in), reflexive-reciprocal
  • • Elaboration using adverbs or modifiers of time, manner, feelings, number and description
  • • Elaboration joining clauses with conjunctions and linking devices
  • • Elaboration researching how the process of language-building under the custodianship of Elders and/or community members, expands existing linguistic and cultural resources in the community

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