AC9LS8EU04 Year 7 Languages

AC9LS8EU04 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture

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.

Content Descriptor

recognise how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values

Elaborations

• viewing interactions between Spanish-speaking people and recognising register as well as comparing culturally determined manners or behaviour, for example, kisses on the cheek or formal/informal address
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listening to and reading traditional texts such as leyendas, fábulas, rimas y refranes, identifying key messages, beliefs and values, and comparing aspects that may be similar or different across cultures
• identifying that a sense of identity and belonging is important across all cultures and discussing how it may be expressed, for example, through family or community, actions, behaviours or self-perception
• examining, in Spanish or English, how First Nations Australian languages have strong connections to Country/Place locations and how these can be compared with language variations across Spanish-speaking countries and regions
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exploring language features that reflect and embody cultural values and history, for example, regional differences in naming conventions such as the use of apellidos, composite names and religious based name order María José/José María
• identifying elements of ways of communicating and behaving in Spanish that may be unfamiliar to people from different contexts and cultures, for example, ways of expressing wishes, social interactions, celebrating events, or rituals associated with sports
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considering language use depending on the context and relationship, for example, calling someone gordito as a term of endearment, not insult

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understanding that languages and cultures change continuously due to contact with and influences from other languages and cultures, and in response to new ideas and developments, for example, tuitear, globalización, chatear, bloguear, cliquear, presionar control click
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collecting examples of Spanish word borrowings from other languages, for example, fútbol, shopping, básquetbol, canguro, chófer, pizza, chau
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observing that many Spanish speakers may be multilingual and can move between languages to achieve different purposes, and to draw on additional communicative resources, for example, Gallego, Euskera, Catalán, Guaraní and Aimara
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examining what is most important to them and their way of life, for example, creating a personal slogan/motto and crest to reflect aspects of their identity using Spanish words, phrases, expressions such as siempre sé positive, and symbols

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANSPA7_10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students use Spanish language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions, and recognise familiar gestures, questions and instructions in exchanges. They recognise relationships between spoken and written forms. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in Spanish or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, and modelled sentence and grammatical structures to create texts. Students approximate pronunciation and intonation in spoken Spanish. They demonstrate understanding that Spanish has conventions and rules for non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of Spanish and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the Spanish language is connected with culture and identity, and that this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.