AC9LV6U04 Year 5 Languages

AC9LV6U04 – Year 5 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 5 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

recognise that language reflects cultural practices, values and identity, and that this impacts on non-verbal, spoken and written communication

Elaborations

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recognising the interconnections between cultural practices and language use in Vietnamese and demonstrating cultural awareness when using Vietnamese, for example, using Dạ, thưa or different personal pronouns to indicate politeness, or adding ông, bà, thầy, cô, … before Vietnamese names, rather than addressing Vietnamese adults with only their first names, to show respect
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noticing that language varies between regions, for example, ốm means ‘sick’ in Northern Vietnamese and ‘thin’ in Southern Vietnamese, bông means ‘cotton’ in Northern Vietnamese and ‘flowers’ in Southern Vietnamese, chi, mô, tê, răng rứa means ‘what, where, that, why and thus’ in Central Vietnamese and means gì, đâu, kìa, sao and vậy in Northern and Southern Vietnamese
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discussing connections between the Vietnamese language and cultural beliefs, for example, con số hên, số đẹp, ngày tốt/tốt ngày, con rồng cháu tiên, khéo ăn thì no, khéo co thì ấm, trời nắng tốt dưa, trời mưa tốt lúa
• exploring, in Vietnamese and English, how language and culture are expressed through First Nations Australians’ song, dance or artworks, considering similarities and differences in an aspect of the cultural expressions of Vietnamese-speaking people or communities
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practising Vietnamese table manners, for example, not eating until the adult starts eating and saying Con mời ba mẹ/ông bà or mời bạn/chị/anh, making no noise from the mouth when eating, learning chopstick manners and serving with the other end of chopsticks
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identifying ways in which Vietnamese language and culture influence the lives of Australians, such as Vietnamese cuisine nem, phở, bánh mì thịt, and fashion, áo dài, nón lá
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understanding the meaning of ‘culture’, how it involves visible elements such as language, symbols, food, national costumes and dancing, and invisible elements such as attitudes, beliefs and values, and comparing these visible and invisible elements of Vietnamese culture with Northern, Central and Southern Vietnamese regions as well as other cultures of the Asia region

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASLANVIEF10Y56

Year 5 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 6, students initiate and use strategies to maintain interactions in Vietnamese language that are related to their immediate environment. They use appropriate sounds, tones, intonation and rhythm in spoken texts. They collaborate in spoken and written activities that involve the language of planning and problem-solving to share information, ideas and preferences. They use strategies to locate and interpret information and ideas in texts, and demonstrate understanding by responding in Vietnamese or English, adjusting their response to context, purpose and audience. They create texts, selecting and using a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures to suit context. They sequence information and ideas, and use conventions appropriate to text type. Students apply rules for pronunciation and intonation in spoken Vietnamese. They apply conventions of spelling and punctuation, and use modelled structures, when creating and responding in Vietnamese. They compare language structures and features in Vietnamese and English, using some metalanguage. They show understanding of how some language reflects cultural practices and consider how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.