AC9LJ10U04 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 how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), beliefs, attitudes and values and how these affect ways of communicating

Elaborations

• 1 discussing their own and others’ attitudes towards cultural diversity and difference, including the use of stereotypes and generalisations, and considering how these affect communication
• 2 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)
• 3 providing examples of exchanges in Japanese that require cultural as well as literal interpretation, such as responses that deflect personal considerations, for example, replying positively to an enquiry お元気ですか, or strategies to preserve values of humility and honour
• 4 reflecting on and explaining the protocols required to authentically co-create an Acknowledgement of Country/Place with a First Nations Australian, to present in Japanese for a group of Japanese-speaking visitors at a school assembly
• 5 discussing how the cultural value of 内／外 is expressed through language, such as the use of prefixes and suffixes when referring to people outside the immediate ‘group’, the choice of informal or formal register, and decisions about what to share/not share in general conversation
• 6 becoming aware of cultural cues when interacting with Japanese speakers or resources that suggest differences in traditions, ideas or values, for example, developing an awareness of the ways of expressing feelings or emotions, maintaining harmony by avoiding conflict and direct replies to a question by using それはちょっと…, and avoiding foregrounding the self with phrases such as お先にどうぞ。がんばります。
• 7 considering how contemporary expressions of individuality exemplified in some forms of contemporary Japanese youth culture relate to traditional concepts of conformity and collective identity, identifying how variations in language use and communicative behaviours reflect how emotions or attitudes such as respect, gratitude or embarrassment are expressed differently across languages and cultures
• 8 evaluating differences in text structure and grammar between formal and informal Japanese language use such as abbreviations, dropping of particles and emphatic intonation in informal communication including face-to-face interactions, blogs, emails and other forms of correspondence, for example, あした行く？／先生、あした行きますか。 うん、わかった。はい、わかりました。 これは何？／上田さん、それは何ですか。

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