AC9LV10U04 Year 9 Languages

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.

reflect on and evaluate how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values and how these affect ways of communicating

Elaborations

• 1 explaining how cultural assumptions influence meaning, for example, the action of hugging as an indication of friendliness in English-speaking contexts versus gender intimacy in Vietnamese-speaking contexts
• 2

  discussing elements of successful intercultural communication, for example, flexibility, awareness of differences in cultural and religious practices such as thờ cúng tổ tiên

• 3

  considering own and others’ responses and reactions in Vietnamese-English intercultural exchanges and discussing reasons for different interpretations of meaning, for example, knowing that Vietnamese-speaking people generally like to avoid conflict and use expressions such as Tôi e rằng… Bạn nói cũng có lý nhưng mà … whereas English speakers may prefer to be more direct

• 4 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
• 5 exploring how cultural concepts such as respect for authority influence Vietnamese communicative practices, for example, not making eye contact or not expressing strongly opposing personal views when interacting with someone more senior to themselves
• 6

  exploring the influence of popular culture on Vietnamese language spoken in Vietnam and overseas through the development of new vocabulary such as phong cách/thời trang Hàn quốc, truyện tranh Nhật Bản, nhạc RIB/hiphop

• 7

  investigating significant attitudes, beliefs and values that are reflected in different forms of media such as the internet, arts and entertainment, and stories such as Sự tích bánh chưng bánh dày

• 8 recognising and analysing similarities or differences that might be culturally significant across cultures, for example, similarities such as the use of the heart as a symbol of love or doves as a symbol of peace, and differences such as the use of the colour white to signify purity in Western cultures but bad luck in Eastern cultures
• 9 discussing whether being bilingual or multilingual allows for a more flexible sense of identity in ways that involve culture as well as language

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