ACLFWU104

Elaborations
  • identifying words that are the same as or similar to words in neighbouring languages
  • understanding ways in which languages influence one another, for example, language shift, language loss, shared writing systems and concepts, loan words
  • discussing loan words that have been incorporated from other languages to describe new concepts, for example, words for new things, including technological innovations
  • understanding that language and culture together continually change as a result of contact with other languages and cultures