Spoken Language 12

Curricular Competencies

Using oral, written, visual, and digital texts, students are expected individually and collaboratively to be able to:

Comprehend and connect (reading, listening, viewing)

Understand and appreciate the role of story, narrative, and oral tradition in expressing First Peoples perspectives, values, beliefs, and points of view
Understand the diversity within and across First Peoples societies as represented in texts
Use information for diverse purposes and from a variety of sources
Evaluate the relevance, accuracy, and reliability of texts
Select and apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts to comprehend written, oral, visual, and multimodal texts, to guide inquiry, and to transform thinking
Understand and appreciate how different forms, formats, structures, and features of texts reflect a variety of purposes, audiences, and messages
Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to analyze ideas within, between, and beyond texts
Identify and understand the role of personal, social, and cultural contexts, values, and perspectives in texts
Appreciate and understand how language constructs personal, social, and cultural identities
Construct meaningful personal connections between self, text, and world
Evaluate how techniques and devices enhance and shape meaning and impact

Create and communicate (writing, speaking, representing)

Respectfully exchange ideas and viewpoints from diverse perspectives to build shared understanding and transform thinking
Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways
Select and apply speaking and listening skills in a variety of formal and informal contexts for a range of purposes
Select and apply appropriate spoken language formats for an intended purpose
Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful texts for a variety of purposes and audiences
Express and support an opinion with evidence to achieve purpose
Evaluate and refine oral texts to improve clarity, effectiveness, and impact
Use acknowledgements and citations to recognize intellectual property rights
Transform ideas and information to create original texts, using various genres, forms, structures, and styles

Students are expected to know the following:

Text forms and genres

Creative spoken genres

Text features and structures

Oral language features and structures
form, function, and genre of texts
features and structures of First Peoples texts
narrative structures found in First Peoples texts
issues related to the ownership of First Peoples oral texts and protocols for their use
the legal status of First Peoples oral tradition in Canada

Strategies and processes

Language features, structures, and conventions