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Arabic / Year 9 and 10 / Understanding / Role of language and culture
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Curriculum content descriptions
Explore how language both shapes and reflects thoughts and world views and encourages action and reaction, and is shaped by community and individual cultural experiences
[Key concepts: cultural experience, thought, behaviour; Key processes: discussing, reflecting, expressing opinions]
(ACLARU187)
Elaborations
- recognising the importance of learning and maintaining Arabic and other languages in order to access the cultural understanding, values, beliefs and mindsets of others
- reflecting on personal encounters with cultural practices that have impacted on own ways of thinking and reacting and have helped to shape their attitudes to and views of the world around them, and discussing ways to increase intercultural understanding
- discussing and reflecting on how language use, such as persuasive, motivational or emotive language in texts, and in different forms of media, such as the internet, impacts on social behaviour, actions and reactions
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms
Arabic language, Culture