German: 7–10 Sequence / Levels 9 and 10 / Understanding / Role of language and culture
Content description
Explore the dynamic nature of the relationship between language, culture and communication and how it impacts on attitudes and beliefs
Elaborations
establishing a deeper understanding of diversity, and reflecting on what own experience of linguistic and cultural diversity means for them
sharing ideas about how culture ‘works’ as a combination of beliefs, values and practices, and examining own personal and community cultural frames of reference and how and why these change over time
reflecting, through personal journals and group discussions, on how learning German has impacted on own assumptions about German language, culture or identity
considering how the experience of learning a new language has impacted on their awareness of their own communicative and cultural behaviours and of how these may be interpreted by others
analysing how language use and culture reflect and construct relationships, practices and attitudes, including expressions and concepts in German related to education, social equality, national identity and commitment to world peace, for example, Fremdsprache, Ausbildung/Erziehung; Nationalismus/Heimat; those related to Ausländer in German-speaking countries and those within Germany, such as Nord–Süd/Ost–West (Ossi/Wessi) identity
