Roman Alphabet Languages: 7–10 Sequence / Levels 7 and 8 / Understanding / Language variation and change
Content description
Understand that the language, like all languages, varies according to participants, roles and relationships, situations and cultures
Elaborations
recognising that register shifts according to familiarity and social position, for example, using one register for friends, and another for teachers and adults
examining how language varies according to ethnicity and age
understanding that language may change according to people’s roles and situation and that people may choose to use different languages to show, for example, familiarity or high status, such as a politician using language to show sophistication, or someone using a regional variety of language to show membership of a particular ethnic group
Code
VCRAU100
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