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Understand how conventions of speech adopted by communities influence the identities of people in those communities (ACELA1541)

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  • understanding that our use of language helps to create different identities, for example teenage groups and sportspeople have adopted particular words or ways of speaking
General capabilities
  • Literacy Literacy
  • Intercultural understanding Intercultural understanding
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Natural languages,  Cultural identity

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