AC9LJ6C04 Year 5 Languages

AC9LJ6C04 – Year 5 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in Japanese

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 5 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

apply strategies to interpret and convey meaning in Japanese language in familiar spoken, written and non-verbal cultural contexts

Elaborations

• collecting, using and explaining Japanese words and expressions that do not readily translate into English, such as おかえり、いらっしゃいませ、ごちそうさま、たいへん、げんき、がんばって, and katakana words and Japanese words used within their own language(s), for example, understanding the origin of the word ‘tsunami’
• recognising that some Japanese words can be made more or less formal with slight changes, for example, understanding that お can be placed in front of はし、なまえ and べんとう to suit the context and audience
• using strategies, such as accessing a bilingual dictionary, online translators, resources and applications, or creating their own word banks, to assist with interpreting and conveying meaning, considering relative advantages or limitations of each resource
• acting out a situation or scenario and responding appropriately using non-verbal and verbal forms of communication, for example, role-playing an earthquake or tsunami drill, a lunch scene in a Japanese school, or cheering at a sports day
• performing a role-play or skit for a class or assembly, using Japanese for the performance and English for supporting explanations, for example, performing a skit in Japanese and explaining it afterwards in English, or performing an assembly where the host speaks in Japanese, and English subtitles are displayed on a screen for the audience

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 5 ASLANJAPF10Y56

Year 5 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 6, students initiate and use strategies to maintain interactions in Japanese language that are related to their immediate environment. They use appropriate combinations of hiragana sounds, intonation and rhythm in spoken texts. They collaborate in spoken and written activities that involve the language of planning and problem-solving to share information, ideas, and preferences. They use strategies to locate and interpret information and ideas in texts, and demonstrate understanding by responding in Japanese or English, adjusting their response to context, purpose and audience. They create texts, selecting and using a variety of vocabulary and sentence structures to suit context. They sequence information and ideas, and use conventions appropriate to text type. They use hiragana and familiar katakana and kanji appropriate to context.Students apply rules for pronunciation and intonation, punctuation, modelled structures and scripts, when creating and responding in Japanese. They compare language structures and features in Japanese and English, using some metalanguage. They show understanding of how some language reflects cultural practices and consider how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.