AC9LJ10EC01 Year 9 Languages

AC9LJ10EC01 – Year 9 Languages: Interacting in Japanese

Strand

Communicating meaning in Japanese

Substrand

Interacting in Japanese

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

initiate and sustain interactions in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts to exchange ideas, experiences and opinions about their own and others’ personal world

Elaborations

• using appropriate levels of formality for everyday exchanges such as greetings, introductions and apologies, for example, こんにちは。おそくなってすみません。ごめんね！ and thanking, inviting or congratulating one another, for example, メールをどうもありがとう。いっしょにカラオケをしませんか。
• sharing information and expressing opinions and aspirations about teenage life, and significant or special events in their own life, such as celebrations, leisure activities, and future plans, and comparing with those of Japanese teenagers, for example, 土よう日はぼくのたん生日パーティーでした。どうでしたか。たくさん友だちが来て、たのしかったです。行きたいです。つまらないとおもいます。
• communicating with one another and with teenage Japanese speakers, via email, online conferencing or school-based exchanges, about shared interests such as popular culture, sports and special events, and global issues such as sustainability, or comparing aspects of teenage life, for example, 私のしゅみはスポーツです。山川さんはスポーツをしますか。私はスーパーでアルバイトをしています。デービッドさんはアルバイトをしていますか。日本でリサイクルはきびしいですか。
• providing evidence or reasons to justify own opinions, preferences, or planned actions, in response to others, for example, べんりだから／なので、コンビニで買いものをします、さかなはおいしいから、にくよりすしのほうが好きです。
• developing strategies to initiate, sustain and extend interactions such as asking for clarification, confirmation or additional information いつしますか、だれとしますか、どうですか, and acknowledging and showing interest using appropriate gestures and expressions such as あいづち, and interjections ああ、そうですか、いいですね、そうですね、へえ、はい、うん
• interacting via different modes of written communication in print and digital form, for example, writing letters, text messages and emails, to exchange personal information, ideas and opinions はい、十時に行きます、～さんはどうですか。

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANJAP7_10Y910

Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard

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.