Korean / Year 9 and 10 / Understanding / Role of language and culture

Curriculum content descriptions

Understand that language and culture are interrelated and reflect on how they shape and are shaped by eachother

[Key concepts: intercultural understanding, reciprocity, intercultural literacy; Key processes: critiquing,evaluating, reflecting]

 (ACLKOU209)

Elaborations
  • recognising that language and culture are intertwined in texts andtogether convey cultural perspectives, concepts and values
  • analysing how the Korean language may reflect cultural perspectivesand values such as collectivism, harmony, humility and the importance of ties between family members, for example, arange of kinship terms extending to remote relations, using kinship terms rather than first names to address members ofthe family and norms such as showing deference and saving face, for example, 네, 괜찮아요
  • investigating the origins of particular expressions or words,developing awareness of the origins of meanings and how these may or may not change over time
  • reflecting on own experiences of moving between cultures in the school, local and virtual communitiesand on their different roles played in different intercultural exchanges as a learner and user of Korean
  • recognising the historical, political and culturalfunctions and values of language, researching how the Korean language played a role in maintaining the Korean people’sculture and everyday life under the cultural and linguistic oppression during the early 19th century colonial period andhow Korean culture and language lived it out, flourish and are recognised in the contemporary world
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Critical and creative thinking Critical and creative thinking
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural understanding
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
  • Ethical understanding Ethical understanding
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms

Cultural interaction,  Beliefs,  Korean language

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