AC9LT10U03 Years 9 to 10 Languages

Content descriptor reflect on and evaluate Turkish texts, using metalanguage to analyse language structures and features

Elaborations

• • Elaboration explaining their selection of vocabulary and grammatical and textual features in terms of their intended purpose and audience when composing texts such as emails, songs, slogans or public signs
• • Elaboration comparing linguistic structures and features in spoken and written texts such as media, television, advertisements, face-to-face conversations and emails
• • Elaboration identifying and analysing literary devices such as hyperbole and metaphor, and considering imagery, humour, music and techniques such as camera angles used in contemporary drama, television programs, poetry and film and reflecting on the effect in texts
• • Elaboration analysing the use of rhetorical devices in texts such as advertisements, editorials or political speeches, identifying culturally specific features and experimenting with similar devices in their own spoken and written communication
• • Elaboration comparing language features of Turkish and English versions of a news headline or a school report, noting differences that appear to be culturally significant
• • Elaboration analysing how spoken, written and digital texts convey cultural as well as factual information, for example, by identifying priorities and perspectives in regional news headlines, local-community announcements, advertisements or notices in public spaces such as Bergama’daki çevre problemi