AC9LV10EU04 Year 9 Languages

AC9LV10EU04 – Year 9 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 9 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 and how these affect ways of communicating

Elaborations

• exploring the reciprocal nature of intercultural communication, the process of noticing and responding to differences in perceptions, understandings and behaviours, for example, degrees of formality and politeness, and use of personal space and physical contact
• exploring how globalisation has resulted in the use of English words and expressions in Vietnamese, and discussing the advantages/disadvantages of this influence, for example, in technological terms such as CD, DVD, USB, video, TV, remote control, computer, laptop, internet and website, despite the existence of Vietnamese equivalents
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identifying and explaining changes in contemporary language practices and social behaviours, for example, using less formal language such as chàoThầy/thưa Cô or chào/kính thưa and gestures such as nodding head or shaking hands without bowing head and folding arms when greeting family members and friends, rather than strangers
• reflecting on and explaining the protocols required to authentically co-create an Acknowledgement of Country/Place with a First Nations Australian, to present in Vietnamese to a group of Vietnamese-speaking visitors at a school assembly
• identifying moments of communication breakdown in own intercultural interactions, exploring reasons for these and suggesting adjustments to language and/or behaviours that could be made to enhance mutual understanding
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identifying elements of their personal worlds that contribute to their sense of community and identity, including their use of different languages and involvement in different cultural practices, for example, Trước đây, em ngại nói tiếng Việt nhưng bây giờ em thấy tự hào và tự tin dùng tiếng Việt.
• analysing their own bicultural and bilingual biographies through talking to relatives in Australia or other countries to discover more about family heritage, migration and history and reflecting on how this can contribute to their identity

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANVIE7_10Y910

Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students initiate and sustain Vietnamese language to exchange and compare ideas and experiences about their own and others’ personal worlds. They communicate using non-verbal, spoken and written language to collaborate, plan and reflect on activities and events. They interpret and analyse information and ideas in texts and demonstrate understanding of different perspectives. They synthesise information and respond in Vietnamese or English, adjusting language to convey meaning and to suit context, purpose and audience. They use structures and features of spoken and written Vietnamese to create texts. Students apply features and conventions of spoken Vietnamese to enhance fluency. They select and apply knowledge of language conventions, structures and features to interact, make meaning and create texts. They support discussion of structures and features of texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own language use and cultural identity, and draw on their experience of learning Vietnamese, to discuss how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.