AC9LRF8C01 Years 7 to 8 Languages

Content descriptor initiate and sustain exchanges in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to students’ experiences, feelings and views, adjusting their language in response to others

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• • Elaboration using culturally-appropriate greetings and terms of address depending on cultural status such as when interacting with Elders and/or community members, taking into consideration kinship, relationships, identity, gender and age when communicating between men and women, and the young
• • Elaboration discussing aspects of their everyday lives with others and expressing personal experiences and feelings
• • Elaboration discussing aspects of their personal worlds, such as home, school and social lives, including their use of different languages and involvement in different cultural practices
• • Elaboration using fillers, asking questions or clarification, requesting more details or how to spell or say a word, phrase or expression in [Language] to sustain interaction
• • Elaboration sharing their responses to the experience of learning and using [Language] within their cultural context
• • Elaboration engaging in face-to-face or online conversations with peers about shared interests such as discussing favourite Indigenous music or art
• • Elaboration using visual cues such as gestures, hand signs, body language and eye contact to interact in a culturally-appropriate manner

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• • Elaboration communicating with peers and other [Language] speakers in local or online communities if appropriate, using active listening skills, turn-taking cues, and requests for clarification
• • Elaboration sharing past events or experiences and/or future goals and aspirations with their teachers and peers
• • Elaboration inviting Elders and/or community cultural-knowledge holders to share information about their local culture and engaging in respectful discussion such as responding to and asking questions
• • Elaboration using [Language] in real-life experiences on Country/Place, for example, through cooking traditional food, basket weaving, and wood carving