AC9LJ4U04 – Year 3 Languages: Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture

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

• • exploring additional elements of ‘culture’ (what is valued in different communities, contexts, environments, different approaches to teaching and learning in school, etc.), and understanding formulaic expressions and terms that reflect cultural values, for example, きをつけて、おそうじじかん、 きゅうしょく
• • recognising and practising common language and behaviours that reflect Japanese culture and traditions, for example, when viewing excerpts from digital texts, listening for key words and familiar phrases and interpreting cultural expressions and behaviours, and ways of accepting compliments or praise in Japanese by saying いいえ instead of ありがとう, expressing humility and respect by not going first or not using さん for self
• • noticing and comparing their own and others’ ways of communicating, identifying any elements that reflect cultural differences or influences of other languages, and considering different interpretations, for example, noticing differences between Japanese and Australian-English language used in certain social situations, いただきます、ご ちそうさまでした, before and after meals, and ただいま、おかえりなさい
• • exploring representations of information such as symbols used in cultural expressions of First Nations Australians, and making connections with those of Japanese language and culture
• • learning to discuss culture and language by responding to prompt questions, for example, “What do you notice?”, “Why do you think that …?”, “How is this similar/different …?”, or using thinking strategies, “I used to think/now I think”
• • discussing the importance of respect and politeness in Japanese culture, for example using specific titles, gestures and language, and noticing that the suffix さん can be used with anyone, regardless of gender, age or status
• • noticing how politeness, humility and respect are conveyed in different ways in Japanese language and behaviour, such as how body language and gestures can replace words, for example, bowing as an apology or as a request to be excused

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard: