AC9LJ10EU01 Year 9 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 developing oral fluency, exploring how rhythm, pitch and the use of connectives, interjections and gestures contribute to maintaining momentum and increasing confidence and engagement
• 2 understanding how to make appropriate pauses in a sentence, dividing the sentence into cohesive chunks to allow for the use of あいづち
• 3 understanding that many kanji have multiple readings and that there are 2 types of readings, that is, on-yomi (音; on ‘reading’ or ‘sound’), Chinese-style pronunciation, and kun-yomi (訓; kun ‘reading’ or ‘explanation’), Japanese style pronunciation; both on-yomi and kun-yomi can have multiple readings
• 4 explaining that some new notations have been devised over the years to account for the sounds of loan words, for example, ティ、ヴィ、ヴ
• 5 understanding and applying differences in the pronunciation of English and Japanese versions of loan words such as インターネット、セルフィ、ファストフード and pronouncing unfamiliar katakana words
• 6 using Japanese pitch and accent patterns, for example, practising high and low pitch type when pronouncing words and sentences, は↓し(chopstick) - high-low, は↑し(bridge) - low-high
• 7 recognising and applying patterns of intonation in Japanese, such as general formation of a down turning curve and a rising intonation when asking questions in plain or ましょう form, for example, 行く？、行きましょうか。
• 8 applying knowledge of the sounds of Japanese, using romaji input on a keyboard to type texts in script, and choosing kanji appropriate to context

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