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AC9LJ2U02: Year 1 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LJ2U02 Year 1 Languages

AC9LJ2U02 – 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 that hiragana, katakana and kanji are used to construct meaning in Japanese texts

Elaborations

  • • recognising that a Japanese sentence is formed by using scripts and that simple statements end in です and questions end in か
  • • understanding that Japanese uses 3 different scripts for varied purposes, and that they look different depending on word origins and context
  • • recognising that adjectives are used to describe people, places and things, for example, matching simple adjective words to a picture, おおきい、ちいさい
  • • applying basic stroke order, with support, when copying, tracing and writing some hiragana and simple kanji, for example, numbering strokes or using different coloured pencils
  • • using basic particles as part of formulaic language and being exposed to particles written in hiragana
  • • noticing that Japanese texts can be presented in different ways, for example, finding texts that are right to left then top to bottom, or top to bottom then left to right
  • • counting in Japanese from 1–20 and using numbers with counters to express age and number of family members さい、人
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  • • using これ and か as formulaic language to ask and respond to questions such as これはなんですか。これはねこです。
  • • recognising some familiar kana words and kanji, for example, numbers and 象形文字 (しょうけいもじ) pictographs such as 山、川、口、目、上, and using visual and oral clues to predict the meaning

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).