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K–10Aboriginal Languages K–10 Syllabus

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Content

Stage 5

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
  • Explain how and why language use varies according to social and cultural contexts, relationships and purposes

  • Research the phenomenon of language change in the target language community

Prior
  • Explain how and why language use varies according to social and cultural contexts, relationships and purposes

  • Reflect on the reciprocal relationship between language, culture and communication, and how this relationship reflects values and beliefs

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

Communication and identity
Additional
  • Reflect on intercultural experiences as a learner of the target language, recognising how cultural identity influences ways of communicating, thinking and behaving

Prior
  • Reflect on how cultural identity both influences and is shaped by ways of communicating, thinking and behaving

First
  • Reflect on how cultural identity both influences and is shaped by ways of thinking, communicating and behaving

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