Victorian Aboriginal Languages / Levels 7 to 10 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Discuss the purpose and roles of various spoken, written and visual texts in the language
Elaborations
understanding the purpose and role of different types of text in the language, for example, declaring identity, acknowledging parts of traditional belief systems, acknowledging ancestors, passing on knowledge and information, mapping resources on Country and managing natural phenomena such as weather
understanding that Country/Place can be interpreted as text by the community
discussing ways that songs function to capture language and meaning in ways similar to literature in other cultures
linking and sequencing ideas to form cohesive texts, using appropriate grammatical forms and elements, for example, serialisation, connectives, embedding, headings and paragraphing
