AC9LJ4C03 Year 3 Languages

AC9LJ4C03 – Year 3 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in Japanese

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 3 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

locate and respond to key information related to familiar content obtained from spoken, written and multimodal texts

Elaborations

• accessing authentic simple print or digital text (advertisements, catalogues, menus, packaging, etc.) to locate key points of information in relation to elements such as product, number, price, target audience, and suitability to recycle
• locating and translating simple texts about others, for example, cartoon illustrations of similar aged people with matching self-introduction text for students to read, translate and respond to
• viewing or listening to a short weather report, recognising key words such as days of the week, 月よう日はくもりです, and drawing pictures to match the weather
• learning that First Nations Australian languages change according to connections and relationships between people, and giving examples of how this occurs in Japanese
• developing strategies and processes to locate key points of information in texts through the use of pictures, clues, diagrams and recognition of familiar key words, for example, viewing a story and noting words they recognise and inferring key messages
• viewing or listening to a simple text such as a song or story, recognising and using key words to experiment and play with making their own sentences, わたしの／ぼくのしゅみはからてです。
• using print and digital tools to gather and respond to information about one another’s home lives and activities, for example, conducting surveys on pets, sports, families, likes and dislikes, and then using graphs or images to display the results

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 3 ASLANJAPF10Y34

Year 3 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 4, students use Japanese language to initiate structured interactions to share information related to the classroom and their personal world. They use modelled language to participate in spoken and written activities that involve planning. They locate and respond to key items of information in texts using strategies to help interpret and convey meaning in familiar contexts. They use modelled language and basic syntax to create texts. They use hiragana with support, and familiar kanji appropriate to context.Students imitate hiragana sounds, pronunciation and intonation patterns of Japanese language. They demonstrate understanding that Japanese has non-verbal, spoken and written language conventions and rules to create and make meaning. They recognise that some terms have cultural meanings. They identify patterns in Japanese and make comparisons between Japanese and English. They understand that the Japanese language is connected with culture, and identify how this is reflected in their own language(s) and culture(s).