ACLHIC101
Elaborations
- discussing what identity is and how their own sense of identity is influenced by their experience of living in a multicultural society and of identifying with particular language communities
- considering how their sense of identity changes over time, taking into account changes in language use at home, in school and in the wider community
- discussing whether their relationships with people of different generations, gender and language backgrounds influence their ways of communicating
- reflecting on how their own perspectives and ways of communicating may be perceived by others, for example, in relation to language choice or code-switching and to behaviours that may be perceived as ‘cultural’
- exploring how using different languages to make meaning and drawing from varied cultural resources affects how they think, behave and communicate
- discussing whether being bilingual and bicultural affects their sense of identity in ways that involve culture as well as language