AC9LRF6U04 Years 5 to 6 Languages

Content descriptor understand how [Language] and Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages can be revived, maintained and strengthened

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• • Elaboration understanding terms used in discussions about some Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages, such as revitalisation, reclamation and renewal
• • Elaboration identifying some of the complexities, challenges and barriers involved in keeping oral traditions strong, such as colonisation and present-day global influences
• • Elaboration recognising the importance of cultural ownership and traditional kinship systems in dances, songs, stories, tools and designs, and how specific cultural groups hold custodial rights and responsibilities over these expressions
• • Elaboration understanding that dances, songs, stories and designs are connected through and belong to kinship and other social groupings, place, histories and stories
• • Elaboration recognising and using principles and protocols of cultural safety when engaging with cultural material or property, for example, seeking permission and explaining the purpose of a visit to someone else’s property or Community by writing an entry-request letter using modelled language
• • Elaboration researching ways that language and culture have been revitalised and strengthened in their community, for example, by using [Language] in writing, recording, archiving material, media services, ceremonies, celebrations, songs and music, and visual designs
• • Elaboration engaging and asking questions of local community members about the histories and experiences of their language(s), for example, asking which aspects of language they learnt through songs and stories

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• • Elaboration researching how local language has developed and identifying historical connections with other local languages