English / Year 9 / Language / Language for interaction

Curriculum content descriptions

Understand that roles and relationships are developed and challenged through language and interpersonal skills (ACELA1551)

Elaborations
  • identifying the various communities to which students belong and how language reinforces membership of these communities (the intimate language of family members, the jargon of teenage groups, the technicality of some online communities, the language specific to recreational groups, the interaction patterns of the classroom, the commonalities in migrant and cultural groups)
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Personal and social capability Personal and social capability
ScOT terms

Social settings (Narratives)

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