AC9LJ10U03 Year 9 Languages

AC9LJ10U03 – 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 analyse language structures and features

Elaborations

• using metalanguage to describe and apply grammatical concepts and language elements めいし、けいようし、どうし、ぶん, and to organise learning resources such as verb charts and lists of vocabulary and sentence structures
• 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
• examining the use and purpose of popular Japanese idioms and proverbs ことわざ in texts, and better understand culture and values, for example, ‘でるくいはうたれる’ ‘はなよりだんご’ ‘さるもきからおちる’ ‘一期一会’ (いちごいちえ)
• comparing language features of Japanese and English versions of texts, such as weather reports or text messages, including the use of abbreviations and emoticons, and noting differences that might be culturally significant

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANJAPF10Y910

Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students contribute to and extend interactions in Japanese language in increasingly unfamiliar contexts related to a wide range of interests and issues. They interpret texts by evaluating and synthesising information, ideas and perspectives. They show understanding of how features of language can be used to influence audience response. They create texts, selecting and manipulating language for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. They apply and use complex sentences and structures to create and respond to spoken and written texts. They use a variety of tenses to sequence events and use language devices to enhance meaning and cohesion. They select and use combinations of kana and a range of kanji appropriate to context.Students incorporate features, conventions and phrasing patterns of spoken Japanese in informal and formal speech, to extend fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the conventions of spoken and written texts and the connections between them. They apply knowledge of scripts, language structures and features, to make and predict meaning. They identify multiple readings of familiar kanji in different compounds. They support analysis of Japanese texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own cultural perspectives and identity, and draw on their experience of learning Japanese, to evaluate how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.