AC9LJ10U01 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, conventions and phrasing patterns of spoken Japanese in both informal and formal speech to extend fluency in responding to and creating texts in familiar and unfamiliar contexts, and recognise multiple readings of familiar kanji in different compounds

Elaborations

• 1 focusing on oral fluency and accuracy, exploring how rhythm, pitch and the use of connectives and gestures contribute to maintaining momentum and increasing confidence and engagement
• 2 applying active listening skills and understanding of conversational etiquette in Japanese by using あいづち and interjections to show attentiveness and interest, for example, nodding, repeating heard information and confirming details at the end of a conversation, understanding nuance when using ね (confirming)、よ (assertions)、かしら、なるほど、そのとおり、そういうわけか、そうなのか, using けど to finish incomplete sentences; ところで to change topic
• 3 accurately pronouncing familiar and unfamiliar words in katakana, and understanding that some new combinations of sounds have been created for loan words, using small vowel sounds, for example, ディ、ファ
• 4 identifying the use of rising intonation when asking questions in casual speech or ましょう form, for example, 食べない？ 食べましょうか。
• 5 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
• 6 recognising ways that written language is different from spoken language, and that written language is more crafted, precise, elaborated and complex, for example, using sentence fragments, だれと？ どこで？ それで？
• 7 recognising and responding to challenges associated with clarity and pace in audio texts such as station or airport announcements or recorded phone messages
• 8 applying knowledge of the sounds of Japanese by using romaji input on a keyboard to type a range of texts in script, choosing hiragana, katakana and kanji appropriate to context

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