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AC9LT8U04: Year 7 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture
AC9LT8U04 Year 7 Languages

AC9LT8U04 – 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

reflect on and explain how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values

Elaborations

  • sharing understandings of what culture is and of how it relates to language and to identity, using statements such as Kültür … demektir, Kültür … oluşur. Kültür ve dil bir milletin en önemli özelliklerindendir. Kültür dili, dil kültürü yaratır

  • identifying how words, expressions and actions reflect relationships and social hierarchies in Turkish and considering how concepts such as respect and hierarchy are expressed in English, for example, the use of titles such as bey/hanım, usta, çırak, muavin, yardımcı, paşa, öğretmen, hoca

  • reflecting on significant cultural experiences or events for example, köy düğünleri, misafirperverlik, imece, komşuluk ilişkileri, geleneksel kışlık yiyecek hazırlıkları

  • examining, in Turkish or English, how First Nations Australians’ languages have strong connections to Country/Place and how these can be compared to language variation across Turkish-speaking countries and regions/regional dialects
  • explaining aspects of Australian lifestyles and terminology to Turkish-speaking friends and relatives, for example, the use of abbreviations and colloquialisms such as ‘barbie’, ‘arvo’, ‘brekkie’, ‘g’day’, ‘fair dinkum’ or ‘no worries!’
  • analysing humorous bilingual texts, such as comics, stories or dialogues between Turkish-speaking characters in Australia
  • researching culturally-important symbols and how they relate to identity and national pride, such as symbols from historical events or in myths and legends

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.