AC9LV10U03 Years 9 to 10 Languages

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

Elaborations

• • Elaboration analysing how language choices help achieve particular purposes and effects, for example, descriptive language to promote a product, evaluative language to reflect on an experience or to review a literary work, persuasive language to influence audience, or humorous techniques to entertain
• • Elaboration identifying appropriate salutations, depending on their personal relationship or social ranking, in specific text types such as emails, speeches or interviews, for example, Kính thưa … /Thưa …, …thân mến/thương mến, kính chào/chào …
• • 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 understanding and transforming texts to suit different purposes (to persuade, entertain, etc.), different audiences (children, adolescents, Vietnamese people, Australians, etc.), and different types of texts (articles, reports, speeches, etc.)
• • Elaboration comparing the meaning and use of Vietnamese and English conjunctions, such as càng … càng = ‘the more … the more …’ or ‘more and more’, vừa … vừa … = ‘both … and’, chẳng những … mà còn = ‘not only … but also’, không … mà cũng không = ‘neither … nor’, and using them in own speech and writing
• • Elaboration identifying language features and cultural references that contribute to the overall meaning or purpose of texts, for example, a rhetorical question such as Chẳng lẽ chúng ta chịu bó tay sao? to call for action, or truyền thống tôn sư trọng đạo to promote the value of education