Victorian Aboriginal Languages / Levels 7 to 10 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Understand and explain the sound patterns in spoken language and use developing phonemic awareness to represent these patterns in written form
Elaborations
reading aloud for meaning to demonstrate comprehension of sound–symbol correspondences
developing metalanguage to describe and talk about sounds and phonology, for example, place and manner of articulation, uncertain or missing sounds
investigating sound patterns, for example, consonant and vowel sequences, and word-level patterns, for example, allowable word-final sounds, allowable consonant clusters, word stress
understanding the major categories of place of articulation in Aboriginal languages, for example, peripheral, laminal, apical, and their realisation across different languages and regions in Australia
establishing similarities in the sound systems of related languages otherwise masked by differing spelling systems
using their knowledge of alphabetic conventions for Aboriginal languages to transcribe spoken texts from a range of languages, for example, those related to the target language or those from neighbouring regions
comparing and explaining the relative consistency of Aboriginal languages and English in spelling words
understanding the phonemic basis of alphabetic spelling systems and the fact that different sounds can be covered within a single phoneme or letter
exploring different writing systems that are based on different principles, for example, syllabic or ideographic
