AC9LJ10C03 Year 9 Languages

AC9LJ10C03 – Year 9 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in Japanese

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 Languages provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Content Descriptor

evaluate and synthesise information, ideas and perspectives in a broad range of spoken, written and multimodal texts and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• analysing a range of complex and extended texts including written, audio and visual forms (articles, interviews, and video clips, etc.) and, for example, identifying and evaluating intended audience and purpose, cultural differences, values and perspectives
• gathering factual information and opinions from a range of authentic Japanese texts (websites, forums, articles, videos, etc.) to create a unique response according to context, audience and purpose, for example, planning a dream holiday, persuading the school to introduce ぶかつ, a new uniform or improving sustainability efforts, ～によると、～パーセントの学生はぶかつが楽しいと思う。だから～
• synthesising information from a variety of sources to understand differing perspectives and community attitudes towards, and in relation to, current local and global issues, for example, investigating differing perspectives about sustainability, social media, or multiculturalism
• listening to or reading a First Nations Australian’s stories and discussing their opinions and ideas, and, in Japanese, presenting their personal profile to the class
• demonstrating a perceptive understanding of a range of texts (film, historical texts, narratives, etc.) by recounting, reflecting and evaluating events from the perspective of the author and/or character(s), for example, はじめてトトロに会った時、少しこわかったけど、また会いたい。
• understanding details and summarising key information, for example, using new words encountered in authentic texts (websites, newspaper articles, documentaries, reports, podcasts, etc.) on topics of local and global interests ちきゅうおんだんかがもんだいになっています。
• interviewing others to obtain information, viewpoints and details on topics of interest and presenting the information in new ways for specific audiences, for example, presenting a speech about a special person in their lives, about others’ opinions on school rules, or a ‘how to’ procedural report

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANJAPF10Y910

Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students contribute to and extend interactions in Japanese language in increasingly unfamiliar contexts related to a wide range of interests and issues. They interpret texts by evaluating and synthesising information, ideas and perspectives. They show understanding of how features of language can be used to influence audience response. They create texts, selecting and manipulating language for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. They apply and use complex sentences and structures to create and respond to spoken and written texts. They use a variety of tenses to sequence events and use language devices to enhance meaning and cohesion. They select and use combinations of kana and a range of kanji appropriate to context.Students incorporate features, conventions and phrasing patterns of spoken Japanese in informal and formal speech, to extend fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the conventions of spoken and written texts and the connections between them. They apply knowledge of scripts, language structures and features, to make and predict meaning. They identify multiple readings of familiar kanji in different compounds. They support analysis of Japanese texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own cultural perspectives and identity, and draw on their experience of learning Japanese, to evaluate how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.