AC9LV2U01 – Year 1 Languages: Understanding systems of language

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 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.

Elaborations

• 1

  building phonic awareness by recognising and experimenting with sounds and rhythms, focusing on letters that are similar in the English alphabet but produce different sounds in Vietnamese, for example, e and i, d and đ

• 2

  recognising sounds that are specific to Vietnamese, for example, ă, â, ê, ô ơ, u, ư, d, đ

• 3

  developing familiarity with similarities and differences in Vietnamese sound-letter correspondence, such as a, ă, â; e, ê; o, ô, ơ; u, ư; as well as c and k, i and y, s and x, and ch and tr

• 4

  noticing that Vietnamese is a tonal language that uses 5 tone markers, and that pitch changes affect the meaning of words, for example, ma, mà, má, mả, mã and mạ

• 5 developing pronunciation, phrasing and intonation skills by singing, reciting and repeating words and phrases
• 6

  understanding that Vietnamese language only has single syllables, but it has compound words, for example, Nguyên pronounced as one syllable Nguyen not Ngu-yen

• 7

  listening to simple texts and identifying where tone changes the meaning of a word, for example, on an interactive whiteboard, selecting where tone changes the meaning of words in Tâm ca cả ngày được ăn cả con cá. Bạn con bán cái bàn.

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