AC9LRF8U05 Year 7 Languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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.

reflect on and explain how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), and Country/Place, and how these impact on communication

Elaborations

• 1 explaining the role of language in relation to culture and identity, and in passing on knowledge, such as sustainable care of the environment, rules for living, ways of behaving, spiritual and cultural functions, and histories
• 2 reflecting on ways the [Language] community classifies natural and cultural worlds, and comparing these with other indigenous and western systems of classification
• 3 understanding that culturally-significant attitudes and beliefs conveyed through [Language] are related to the past, to land, plants, animals and celebrations
• 4 analysing concepts related to cultural values in [Language], including naming systems, such as kinship terms and nicknames
• 5 identifying and discussing core cultural concepts reflected in Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages, such as respect, avoidance, reciprocity, obligation and responsibility
• 6 considering how and why [Language] speakers use particular conversation strategies such as indirect language to avoid conflict
• 7 reflecting on ways culture is interpreted by others, for example, identifying how stereotypes influence perceptions among different groups and communities

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