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Spanish / Year 7 and 8 / Understanding / Role of language and culture

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Curriculum content descriptions

Reflect on how cultural values and ideas are embedded in language and influence intercultural interactions and experiences

[Key concepts: interpretation, cultural expression; Key processes: reflecting, comparing, analysing]

(ACLSPU180)

Elaborations

identifying how ways of communicating in Spanish and English differ and how people outside each culture may understand these differently, for example, attitudes to time reflected in language and social interactions; expressing thanks or appreciation more or less directly
recognising that language and cultural practices are interconnected, for example, by identifying the religious origins or connotations of many common Spanish names (Jesús María, Dolores, Concepción, Asunción) and expressions (la bendición, ¡que Dios te bendiga!)
investigating and using language associated with significant cultural practices and events such as celebrations, for example, La novena, Día de las madres, Día de la emancipación de los esclavos, Primero de mayo, Carnaval, and identifying associated values, beliefs and perspectives
considering how differences between ways of using language reflect cultural influences, for example, the adoption of varying systems of apellidos in different Spanish-speaking communities

General capabilities

Literacy
Critical and creative thinking
Intercultural understanding
Personal and social capability
Ethical understanding

ScOT terms

Spanish language

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