AC9LV8EC05 Year 7 Languages

AC9LV8EC05 – Year 7 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in Vietnamese

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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

develop and begin to apply strategies to interpret, translate and convey meaning in Vietnamese in familiar contexts

Elaborations

• comparing translations of familiar texts such as children’s stories or advertisements and considering whether meaning can be changed or lost in the translation process
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identifying words or phrases that are difficult to translate, for example, food items such as bánh chưng, bánh tét, bánh xèo, phở, or traditional practices such as cúng ông bà, cúng giỗ, coi ngày, coi tuổi, and explaining reasons for difficulty, such as lack of equivalent concepts or practices in Vietnamese and English
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learning to use bilingual dictionaries and electronic translation tools, and identifying issues such as multiple meanings of words and the need to consider context or grammar to select relevant meaning, for example, đá banh (kick the ball), nước đá (iced water), cục đá (stone)
• making and using bilingual resources for language learning, such as glossaries or personal Vietnamese-English and English-Vietnamese print or online flashcards or creating bilingual games
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comparing appropriate ways of communicating in Vietnamese and non-Vietnamese contexts, for example, using different titles to address a teacher by their first name in Vietnamese but by their family name in English, for example, Thầy Tùng/ Mr. Nguyen, Cô Hoa/ Ms Tran

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANVIE7_10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students use Vietnamese language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions, and recognise familiar gestures, questions and instructions in exchanges. They recognise relationships between spoken and written forms. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in Vietnamese or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, and modelled sentence and grammatical structures to create texts. Students approximate tones, pronunciation and intonation in spoken Vietnamese. They demonstrate understanding that Vietnamese has conventions and rules for non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of Vietnamese and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the Vietnamese language is connected with culture and identity, and that this connection is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.