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K–10Aboriginal Languages K–10 Syllabus

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Content

Stage 4

The role of language, culture and identity

Content is provided for:

  • Additional: Language Revival – students learning the target language as an additional language
  • Prior: Language Revival – students with significant prior learning and/or experience in the target language
  • First: students continuing to learn their First Language as the target language.
Exchanging meaning
Additional
  • Understand how language use varies according to context and relationship between participants

  • Explore connections between language and culture in particular words, expressions and communicative behaviours

Prior
  • Discuss variations in target language use that reflect a range of social and cultural contexts, purposes and relationships

  • Explain ways in which choices in language use reflect cultural ideas, and explore communicative behaviours across cultures

First
  • Reflect on how language use varies according to social and cultural contexts, relationships and purposes

Communication and identity
Additional
  • Explore connections between language and culture in particular words, expressions and communicative behaviours

Prior
  • Reflect on how their own biography, including family/cultural origins, beliefs and practices, affects their sense of identity and ways of communicating

First
  • Reflect on the relationship between language, culture and identity, and how this shapes ways of communicating and thinking

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