Explore their individual and group sense of identity and how this is expressed through the different languages they use
Elaborations
demonstrating gestures or behaviours that they feel ‘belong’ with the Turkish language and are associated with their sense of identity, comparing with other gestures or behaviours that they identify with being Australian
talking about the relationship between identity and languages, creating drawings or photo displays that show their connections with family, friendship groups and communities, with captions of words or phrases that they particularly associate with each group, such as Dini bayramlarda aile ve akraba ziyaretleri, Arkadaşlarla oyun oynarken, Huzur evinde yaşlılara kitap okurken
discussing the importance to their own identity of speaking Turkish with some relatives, friends or members of the wider Turkish-speaking community
observing themselves and reporting to each other how they use Turkish and English in different contexts and for different purposes, identifying favourite expressions or gestures in each language
talking about how they feel when using English, Turkish or other languages and whether there are some things that feel more natural in one language than in the other
