AC9LJ2U04 – Year 1 Languages: Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture

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.

Elaborations

• • exploring the meaning of ‘culture’ and how it involves visible elements (ways of eating or symbols used in flags, etc.) and invisible elements (how people live, how they think about themselves and others, how they relate to their environment, etc.)
• • noticing that Japanese has different language for polite and informal interactions, for example, hearing the difference between ありがとう and ありがとうございます
• • understanding that learning and using Japanese language involves becoming familiar with some other ways of communicating, for example, いただきます、ごちそうさま, and also involves some ways of thinking about things and behaving that may be unfamiliar
• • exploring symbols used by First Nations Australians and those used in Japanese-speaking communities in a range of contexts, for example, finding out what the symbols on flags represent
• • understanding that culture and cultural behaviours are woven into languages and cannot be separated from them, for example, it is possible to bow without a spoken greeting in Japanese culture, but not to greet without bowing
• • becoming aware of Japanese ways of showing respect and politeness, and comparing with how this is done in their own language(s) and culture(s), for example, using titles such as せんせい, bowing, and accepting objects with both hands
• • comparing aspects of lifestyles of children living in Australia and Japan, such as ways of playing games, じゃんけん, mealtime etiquette, or addressing family members and friends

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: