AC9LV8EU04 Year 7 Languages

AC9LV8EU04 – Year 7 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 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

recognise how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values

Elaborations

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discussing how language reflects cultural concepts and values, for example, the importance of seeking agreement and compromise as reflected in the way Vietnamese people express disagreement such as Tôi không nghĩ vậy, or the importance of respect as seen in the way Vietnamese-speaking people address those more senior to themselves using dạ/dạ có/ chào Cô/ Thưa thầy
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understanding that languages and cultures change continuously in response to new ideas, social change and technological development and finding examples of this in Vietnamese and English, such as phrases and concepts that have been created as a result of contact with other cultures, for example, kimono, koala, sushi, pizza, pasta, bánh mì, hamburger, fast food
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examining the influence of Vietnamese culture on gestures, tone and word choices in social interactions, for example, understanding that chú, bác indicates informality when addressing an unrelated person and that this reflects the value of family in Vietnamese culture
• examining, in Vietnamese or English, how First Nations Australians’ languages have strong connections to Country/Place and how these can be compared with language variation across Vietnamese-speaking communities
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recognising the influence of English language and culture on own Vietnamese language use, including writing Vietnamese names such as Lan Nguyen instead of Nguyễn Thanh Lan
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discussing how values such as politeness, affection or respect are conveyed in Vietnamese, for example, by comparing interactions in their family with interactions they observe in non-Vietnamese-speaking families, and the use of terms of affection such as dễ thương, đáng quí

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.