AC9LJ8C03 Year 7 Languages

AC9LJ8C03 – Year 7 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in Japanese

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between languages

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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

interpret information, ideas and opinions in a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• accessing information from a range of authentic and/or modified texts across a range of modes and text types, for example, viewing signs, weather reports, print advertisements, menus, packaging, brochures, websites, and phone messages, and obtaining, interpreting and evaluating information, opinions and ideas
• responding to both factual (newspaper, article, journal, etc.) and imaginative texts (songs, stories, films, 昔話, videoclips, etc.), for example, identifying favourite elements or characters, writing reviews, creating a sequel/alternative ending
• synthesising a range of informative texts and personal opinions to draw out key information in order to respond appropriately in Japanese, for example, inviting a friend to holiday/cultural events, reflecting on an imagined or real experience, reviewing a video/article
• listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories and responding to them in spoken or written Japanese
• engaging with authentic Japanese commercials, video clips, songs, or cartoons and using known key words, visual clues, context, target audience, and prior knowledge to help infer meaning and guess the main idea, gist and purpose
• interpreting key details and taking notes from a range of texts and recording a simple summary of essential information, for example, viewing or listening to another student’s school routine, then creating their weekly timetable
• conducting surveys or interviews with others on familiar topics such as hobbies, studies, social media and opinions about issues, and presenting information in chosen formats (written, digital, etc.), for example, 六十%の人はおなじいけんです。

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANJAPF10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students initiate and maintain interactions in Japanese language in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to a range of interests and experiences. They use Japanese to collaborate and problem-solve, and adjust language in response to others. They interpret information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences between languages, in both familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts, by adjusting and reorganising responses. They select and use vocabulary, sentence structures, expressions and levels of formality to create texts. They select and use combinations of kana and familiar kanji appropriate to context.Students apply the conventions of spoken Japanese and phrasing patterns to develop fluency. They demonstrate understanding that spoken, written and multimodal texts use different conventions, structures and features to convey meaning. They comment on structures and features of Japanese text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how the Japanese language, culture and identity are interconnected, and compare this with their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.