Year 5 Japanese Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 5 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 6, students initiate and use strategies to maintain interactions in Japanese language that are related to their immediate environment. They use appropriate combinations of hiragana sounds, intonation and rhythm in spoken texts. They collaborate in spoken and written activities that involve the language of planning and problem-solving to share information, ideas, and preferences. They use strategies to locate and interpret information and ideas in texts, and demonstrate understanding by responding in Japanese or English, adjusting their response to context, purpose and audience. They create texts, selecting and using a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures to suit context. They sequence information and ideas, and use conventions appropriate to text type. They use hiragana and familiar katakana and kanji appropriate to context.
Students apply rules for pronunciation and intonation, punctuation, modelled structures and scripts, when creating and responding in Japanese. They compare language structures and features in Japanese and English, using some metalanguage. They show understanding of how some language reflects cultural practices and consider how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.
Content Descriptors by Strand
This standard is supported by 9 Content Descriptors:
Communicating meaning in Japanese
Interacting in Japanese
AC9LJ6C01 initiate and sustain modelled exchanges in familiar contexts related to students’ personal world and school environment AC9LJ6C02 participate in activities that involve planning and negotiating with others, using language that expresses information, preferences and ideasMediating meaning in and between languages
AC9LJ6C03 locate and process information and ideas in a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, and respond in different ways to suit purpose AC9LJ6C04 apply strategies to interpret and convey meaning in Japanese language in familiar spoken, written and non-verbal cultural contextsCreating text in Japanese
AC9LJ6C05 create and present informative and imaginative spoken, written and multimodal texts using a variety of modelled sentence structures to sequence information and ideas, textual conventions, and hiragana and some familiar katakana and kanji appropriate to contextUnderstanding language and culture
Understanding systems of language
AC9LJ6U01 apply knowledge of combinations of hiragana sounds, pronunciation and intonation patterns to develop fluency and rhythm to known words and phrases AC9LJ6U02 use knowledge of modelled grammatical structures, formulaic expressions and writing system rules to compose and respond to texts using appropriate punctuation and textual conventions AC9LJ6U03 compare some Japanese language structures and features with those of English, using some familiar metalanguageUnderstanding the interrelationship of language and culture
AC9LJ6U04 recognise that language reflects cultural practices, values and identity, and that this impacts on non-verbal and verbal communicationAt a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communicating meaning in Japanese | Interacting in Japanese | 2 | 13 |
| Communicating meaning in Japanese | Mediating meaning in and between languages | 2 | 12 |
| Communicating meaning in Japanese | Creating text in Japanese | 1 | 0 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language | 3 | 24 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture | 1 | 8 |
| Total | 9 | 57 | |