AC9LJ10EU03 Year 9 Languages

AC9LJ10EU03 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding systems of language

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

reflect on and evaluate Japanese texts, using metalanguage to discuss language structures and features

Elaborations

• developing metalanguage to describe and apply grammatical concepts and language elements, and organise learning resources such as verb charts and lists of vocabulary and sentence structures
• reflecting on similarities and differences between English and Japanese ことわざ and how they cannot be directly translated
• understanding the concept of borrowed and created language 外来語 (がいらいご) and 和製英語（わせいえいご）for example, スマホ、マスコミ、メル友、タイプする, to create new meanings, and understanding the reason for the emergence of such words, for example, changing attitudes to social practices, globalisation, social media and digital communication
• discussing Japanese cultural concepts such as 恩 (owing a kindness), 義理 (a sense of duty) and 和 (harmony), and considering how the expression of these concepts in Japanese language and behaviour compares with the expression of similarly significant concepts in their own language(s) and culture(s)

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.