AC9LJ2U01 Year 1 Languages

AC9LJ2U01 – Year 1 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand

Understanding language and culture

Substrand

Understanding systems of language

This Content Descriptor from Year 1 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

recognise and imitate the sounds and rhythms of Japanese and learn how sounds are produced and represented in different scripts

Elaborations

• singing songs or repeating language after the teacher with a focus on practising and producing the 5 vowel sounds, and the consonant plus vowel sounds, using the hiragana chart and image-based mnemonics as reference
• recognising the concept of the basic unit of sound in Japanese ‘mora’: モーラ or 拍はく, for example, いいえ has 3 moras, which can be recognised as syllables in English, for example, clapping out the number of sounds in focus language, and guessing the number of syllables in a Japanese word by closing eyes and holding up one finger per syllable
• understanding that the independent nasal sound ‘n’ ん has a mora of its own, for example, こんにちは
• learning that statements and questions have different intonation patterns and using gestures to indicate the intonation patterns they hear, for example, the arm moving up when the intonation rises
• using mnemonic devices, and also making up their own, to remember the sounds and shapes of hiragana by associating them with pictures, for example, こ for coin
• understanding that one kana represents a basic unit of Japanese sound, for example, showing on the hiragana chart how each character represents one sound
• understanding that when pronouncing Japanese, it is important to keep the length of each mora even

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 1 ASLANJAPF10Y12

Year 1 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 2, students use Japanese language to interact and share information related to the classroom and themselves. They use cues to respond to questions and instructions, and use simple formulaic language. They locate and convey key items of information in texts using non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They use familiar words and modelled language to create text. They copy some kana script and single, high-frequency kanji appropriate to context.Students imitate the sounds and rhythms of Japanese and demonstrate understanding that Japanese has rules for non-verbal communication, pronunciation and writing and identify the 3 different scripts. They give examples of similarities and differences between some features of Japanese and English. They understand that language is connected with culture, and notice how this is reflected in their own language(s) and culture(s).