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AC9LJ6U03: Year 5 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LJ6U03 Year 5 Languages

AC9LJ6U03 – Year 5 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

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

compare some Japanese language structures and features with those of English, using some familiar metalanguage

Elaborations

  • • expanding metalanguage for communicating about language, using the correct terminology for parts of speech (noun, verb and adjective), and additional terms such as pronoun and conjunction, for example, identifying parts of speech in a reading text
  • • discussing why some words are written in katakana and why these words cannot be pronounced identically to the original language they were borrowed from, for example, オーストラリア, and trying to spell some words using katakana chart
  • • identifying different parts of speech, for example, indicating the adjective or verb conjugation pattern in a sentence and translating sentences word for word to compare differences in word order and punctuation (subject+object+verb. versus subject+verb+object), for example, circling or colouring different parts of speech in a sentence
  • • comparing features of familiar genres of Japanese texts (picture books, digital books, games, video clips, songs, etc). for example, reading shared texts and noticing and comparing grammatical elements such as the use of tense, word order and sentence structure
  • • understanding the Japanese number system and comparing with other numerical systems, 一、十、百、千、万, including reference to the use of the そろばん (abacus) versus calculators

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.