AC9LJ4C04 – Year 3 Languages: 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.

Elaborations

• • explaining features of Japanese language protocols such as the use of formulaic expressions, for example, いってきます、ただいま, basic counter classifiers, and the indication of politeness by using です and ます
• • noticing differences in the ways in which Japanese, English and speakers of other language communicate, for example, noticing differences in communication with young children, unfamiliar adults or elderly people おはよう and おはようございます, the absence of a suffix after a family member’s name, and different pronouns
• • creating a word bank or class book with Japanese words and expressions that do not translate easily into English, for example, よろしくおねがいします、いただきます、いってきます、がんばって
• • taking on the role of a character from a story or situation and creating and presenting a skit, song or rap to convey language and cultural information using non-verbal and verbal communication, for example, crossing hands over chest to indicate ばつ (wrong) in a role-play
• • using a familiar text as a stimulus to complete a role-play with their own creative input, for example, role-playing a Japanese folk tale, changing the main characters and items to suit their own preferences

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: