AC9LRF10U03 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding systems of language

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.

Elaborations

• • analysing a range of texts, for example, in respect to declaring identity, acknowledging traditional belief systems, acknowledging Ancestors, passing on knowledge and information, mapping resources on Country/Place, and managing natural phenomena such as weather
• • using metalanguage for identifying and evaluating different types of sentence structures, idiomatic expressions and imagery, and reflecting how these are used to convey cultural meaning
• • analysing how texts are constructed, including cohesive devices such as conjunctions, and coherence devices such as time markers
• • applying principles of text organisation when developing both oral and written texts to develop or present ideas, noticing differences in characteristic features of oral and written discourse, and comparing with English and/or other known language(s)
• • linking and sequencing ideas to form a cohesive text, using appropriate grammatical forms and language features, for example, compound and complex sentences
• • discussing the effect of non-verbal elements of communication such as the use of silence or eye contact in different cultural contexts and exchanges
• • reflecting on ways in which written language is different from spoken language

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: