Concepts in the Rubric

Language, Identity and Culture

What effect does language have on identity and culture?

Language is essential for shaping thoughts and it is our thoughts and ideas that form our identity. Identity can be individual as well as collective and collective identity is vital to the creation of culture.

Individual identity is shaped to a large extent by collective identity. Therefore, in order to change individual identity, one has to engage with different collective identities and groups and this could involve using new language forms.

Use the rubric for Module A: Language, Identity and Culture to write conceptual cause and effect sentences that explain the effect that language and texts can have on identity and culture.

Rubric

Language has the power to both reflect and shape individual and collective identity. In this module, students consider how their responses to written, spoken, audio and visual texts can shape their self-perception. They also consider the impact texts have on shaping a sense of identity for individuals and/or communities. Through their responding and composing students deepen their understanding of how language can be used to affirm, ignore, reveal, challenge or disrupt prevailing assumptions and beliefs about themselves, individuals and cultural groups.

Students study one prescribed text in detail, as well as a range of textual material to explore, analyse and assess the ways in which meaning about individual and community identity, as well as cultural perspectives, is shaped in and through texts. They investigate how textual forms and conventions, as well as language structures and features, are used to communicate information, ideas, values and attitudes which inform and influence perceptions of ourselves and other people and various cultural perspectives.

Through reading, viewing and listening, students analyse, assess and critique the specific language features and form of texts. In their responding and composing students develop increasingly complex arguments and express their ideas clearly and cohesively using appropriate register, structure and modality. Students also experiment with language and form to compose imaginative texts that explore representations of identity and culture, including their own. Students draft, appraise and refine their own texts, applying the conventions of syntax, spelling and grammar appropriately and for particular effects.

Create a table that has three columns and at least six rows and write your own cause and effect sentences that connect language with identity and culture.

Words to describe the process (the middle column)

produces

leads to

provokes

foster

engenders

mirrors

creates

brings about

gives rise to

culminates in

reflects

manifests

expresses

influences

generates

contributes to

shapes

Look at these cause and effect sentences - the process words are in bold.

Poetry is a tool that enables composers to reveal emotions that come from significant experiences.
Language has the capacity to reflect individual and collective identity and shape audiences’ perceptions of themselves and their world.
Texts can shape individual and community beliefs and attitudes.
Poetry that reflect individual and cultural ideologies can spark a feeling of community in responders.
Complex representations of culture and identity can affirm as well as challenge an audience’s perceptions of the society they participate in.
Texts can reinforce and challenge ideas about identity and culture that permeate society.
Language in texts has the ability to influence how individuals and communities see themselves and are seen by others.
Texts can both consolidate as well as question assumptions about individuals and cultures that exist in society.
Texts can perpetuate or disrupt stereotypical perceptions of communities and cultures.
Textual forms and language features are used by composers to communicate values and attitudes which inform and influence perceptions of ourselves and others.
The form, structure, genre, and style of a text can deeply influence how messages about cultural identity are depicted by the composer and interpreted by the responder.
Textual communications, including, poetry have the potential to reinforce as well as challenge stereotypes and attitudes about cultural differences.
Language gives rise to expressions of individual and collective identity.
Language can connect as well as separate people.
The way we speak and communicate shapes how we see ourselves and how we are seen by others.
The way we talk about the world reflects our individual and collective identity.
Texts use language to explore individual and cultural differences.
Texts and features of language can generate individual self-concept, sense of identity, and community belonging.
The way in which we understand our own or others’ cultures is dependent on language.
Language devices and techniques can portray complex, diverse, and challenging representations of cultural identity.
Culture and language have a reciprocal relationship – each informs the other in significant ways.

MORE CONCEPTUAL STATEMENTS - about identity

Language can reveal personal interests, values, and attitudes.
Language can reveal or disrupt individual identity
Language can reinforce or challenge individual interests, values, and attitudes
Language can reflect and reveal individual and personal identity
Language can reflect a change in individual identity
Language can reflect character development and growth
Language can disrupt individual identity

Language can reflect familial identity
Language can reveal familial interests, values, and attitudes

Language can reveal or disrupt collective identity
Language can reinforce or challenge collective values and attitudes.
Language can be used to empower or disempower
Language can reinforce social divisions and inequalities.

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