AC9LV10U03 Year 9 Languages

AC9LV10U03 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding systems of language

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 evaluate Vietnamese texts, using metalanguage to analyse language structures and features

Elaborations

• 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
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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 …
• 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
• 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.)
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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
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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

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANVIEF10Y910

Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students contribute to and extend interactions in Vietnamese language in increasingly unfamiliar contexts related to a wide range of interests and issues. They interpret texts by evaluating and synthesising information, ideas and perspectives. They show understanding of how features of language can be used to influence audience response. They create texts, selecting and manipulating language for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. They apply and use complex sentences and structures to create and respond to spoken and written texts. They use a variety of tenses to sequence events and use language features to enhance meaning and cohesion. Students incorporate the features and conventions of spoken Vietnamese to extend fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the conventions of spoken and written texts and the connections between them. They apply knowledge of language structures and features to make and predict meaning. They support analysis of Vietnamese texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own cultural perspectives and identity, and draw on their experience of learning Vietnamese, to evaluate how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.