AC9LJ10EC04 Year 9 Languages

AC9LJ10EC04 – 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

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

Elaborations

• understanding the gist and recording specific details from texts (websites, newspaper articles, documentaries, reports, podcasts, etc.) on topics such as popular culture, recycling, sustainability and ‘zero waste’, school life, sports or leisure activities in Japan
• obtaining information from a range of texts (written, spoken or multimodal), for example, finding information in letters, articles, television reports, interviews and video clips, and demonstrating comprehension through a range of presentation modes such as short answers, summaries, graphs, charts, diagrams and written or digital reports
• synthesising factual information from a range of print, online/web-based travel and leisure texts and using it to compare options and make suggestions, for example, しんかんせんはとても高いですが、べんりだと思います。とうきょうからきょうとまで二時間半かかります。バスで八時間ぐらいかかります。
• 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
• responding to open-ended questions about characters, places, events or effects in a range of informative and imaginative written and digital texts (articles, stories, videos, etc.) to offer personal views and opinions on character and plot, recount and predict events and engage creatively with texts, and offer alternative endings, for example, どうして person は place に行きましたか。～してから、 thing/person はどう思いましたか、もし、あなたが～さんだったら、どうしますか。
• analysing information from a range of authentic Japanese texts (email, travel brochure, article, review, journal/diary, etc.) to respond appropriately in Japanese according to context, audience and purpose, for example, inviting a friend on a holiday, persuading parents to allow them to attend a concert, reflecting on an imagined experience, and reviewing a video
• identifying variations in spoken and written informative and persuasive texts (print, television, online advertisements, etc.) and noticing differences in language according to the intended audience, purpose and context

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.