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AC9LT8U03: Year 7 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LT8U03 Year 7 Languages

AC9LT8U03 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

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

reflect on similarities and differences between Turkish and English language structures and features, using metalanguage

Elaborations

  • • developing metalanguage for identifying and explaining different types of sentence structures relating to grammatical functions such as subject, object and predicate and comparing with English
  • • recognising the format and stylistic conventions of different Turkish and English texts, such as addressing audience in formal and informal speeches, letters, emails and signing off
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    understanding how Turkish and English texts achieve cohesion by using elements such as paragraphing or conjunctions to sequence and link ideas and to maintain the flow of expression, for example, Öncelikle, Sonuç olarak, Bu yüzden gibi bağlaçlar

  • • applying their understanding of key features of familiar types of Turkish and English texts to understand unfamiliar content, for example, in print and digital public announcements, commercials, advertisements or itineraries
  • • comparing examples of text types in Turkish and English, such as horoscopes, advertisements or weather forecasts, explaining their choice of particular language and texts
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    analysing how texts in Turkish and English establish register by identifying words and expressions that suggest degrees of formality, audience and context, for example, siz/sen, sayın, saygıdeğer, müstakbel, beyefendi/hanımefendi, the use of first-person diminutives, -c(i)ğ(i)m (anneciğim) with bey-bey amcacığım or hanım teyzeciğim and with canım-canım teyzeciğim, kuzucuklarım and canım kuzucuklarım

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANTURF10Y78
Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 8, students initiate and maintain interactions in Turkish language in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to a range of interests and experiences. They use Turkish to collaborate and problem-solve, and adjust language in response to others. They interpret information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences between languages, in both familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts, by adjusting and reorganising responses. They select and use vocabulary, sentence structures and expressions to create texts. Students apply the conventions of spoken Turkish to develop fluency. They demonstrate understanding that spoken, written and multimodal texts use different language conventions, structures and features to convey meaning. They comment on structures and features of Turkish text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how the Turkish language, culture and identity are interconnected, and compare this with their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.