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Year 9 Japanese Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
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Year 9 Japanese Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9

This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 9 Languages by the end of the year. Teachers can use it to guide assessment design, collect evidence of learning, and ensure planning stays aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9.

What Students Should Know

By the end of Year 10, students initiate and sustain Japanese language to exchange and compare ideas and experiences about their own and others’ personal world. They communicate using non-verbal, spoken and written language to collaborate, plan and reflect on activities and events. They interpret and analyse information and ideas in texts and demonstrate understanding of different perspectives. They synthesise information and respond in Japanese or English, adjusting language to convey meaning and to suit context, purpose and audience. They use structures and features of spoken and written Japanese to create texts. They use a combination of kana and a range of familiar kanji appropriate to context.

Students apply features of the Japanese sound system to enhance fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the sound system in spoken exchanges and scripts for written texts, and select and use sentence and grammatical structures to interact, make meaning and create texts. They identify multiple readings of familiar kanji in different compounds. They support discussion of structures and features of texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own language use and cultural identity, and draw on their experience of learning Japanese, to discuss how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.

Content Descriptors by Strand

This standard is supported by 10 Content Descriptors:

Communicating meaning in Japanese

Interacting in Japanese

AC9LJ10EC01 initiate and sustain interactions in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts to exchange ideas, experiences and opinions about their own and others’ personal world AC9LJ10EC02 use Japanese language in exchanges to question, offer opinions and compare and discuss ideas AC9LJ10EC03 use non-verbal, spoken and written exchanges to discuss, plan and reflect on activities, events and experiences with peers

Mediating meaning in and between languages

AC9LJ10EC04 interpret information, ideas and perspectives in a wide range of spoken, written and multimodal texts and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience AC9LJ10EC05 apply strategies to interpret and translate non-verbal, spoken and written interactions and texts to convey meaning and intercultural understanding in familiar and unfamiliar contexts

Creating text in Japanese

AC9LJ10EC06 create spoken, written and multimodal, informative and imaginative texts selecting vocabulary, expressions, grammatical structures and textual conventions for familiar and some unfamiliar contexts and purposes, to engage different audiences, and use a combination of kana and kanji

Understanding language and culture

Understanding systems of language

AC9LJ10EU01 apply features of the Japanese sound system, including pitch, rhythm, stress, pronunciation and intonation, and show how these are represented in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts, and recognise multiple readings of familiar kanji in different compounds AC9LJ10EU02 select and use structures and features of the Japanese grammatical and writing systems to enhance meaning and create spoken, written and multimodal texts AC9LJ10EU03 reflect on and evaluate Japanese texts, using metalanguage to discuss language structures and features

Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture

AC9LJ10EU04 reflect on and explain how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), beliefs, attitudes and values and how these affect ways of communicating

At a Glance

Strand Substrand CDs Elaborations
Communicating meaning in Japanese Interacting in Japanese 3 16
Communicating meaning in Japanese Mediating meaning in and between languages 2 14
Communicating meaning in Japanese Creating text in Japanese 1 10
Understanding language and culture Understanding systems of language 3 26
Understanding language and culture Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture 1 8
Total 10 74

Frequently Asked Questions

What should students know by the end of Year 9 Japanese?
By the end of Year 10, students initiate and sustain Japanese language to exchange and compare ideas and experiences about their own and others’ personal world. They communicate using non-verbal, spoken and written language to collaborate, plan and reflect on activities and events. They interpret and analyse information and ideas in texts and demonstrate understanding of different perspectives. They synthesise information and respond in Japanese or English, adjusting language to convey meaning and to suit context, purpose and audience. They use structures and features of spoken and written Japanese to create texts. They use a combination of kana and a range of familiar kanji appropriate to context.Students apply features of the Japanese sound system to enhance fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the sound system in spoken exchanges and scripts for written texts, and select and use sentence and grammatical structures to interact, make meaning and create texts. They identify multiple readings of familiar kanji in different compounds. They support discussion of structures and features of texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own language use and cultural identity, and draw on their experience of learning Japanese, to discuss how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.
How many Content Descriptors support this standard?
10 Content Descriptors support this Achievement Standard (Communicating meaning in Japanese: 3, Communicating meaning in Japanese: 2, Communicating meaning in Japanese: 1, Understanding language and culture: 3, Understanding language and culture: 1).
How does this compare to Year 9?
The Year 9 Japanese standard (ASLANJAPF10Y910) covers the preceding year level. Standards build progressively, with Year 9 expectations extending what was introduced in Year 9.
Is this from the latest Australian Curriculum?
Yes, this Achievement Standard is from the Australian Curriculum version 9.0 (AC v9), the most current version published by ACARA.