AC9LJ10EU03 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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 reflecting on similarities and differences between English and Japanese ことわざ and how they cannot be directly translated
• 3 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
• 4 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)

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