AC9LJ8EC04 Year 7 Languages

AC9LJ8EC04 – 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

locate and process information and ideas in familiar spoken, written and multimodal texts, responding in ways appropriate to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• identifying key information and facts such as names of people and places, times and activities in familiar contexts, including conversations, advertisements, profiles and simple narratives (using texts such as manga, anime, folk tales, etc.)
• obtaining and organising specific information from a range of everyday Japanese texts (emails, menus, reports, maps, timetables, etc.) and responding in Japanese, for example, accessing a simple weather forecast, and using this information when writing a message to a friend to go somewhere 土よう日ははれです。うみに行きましょう。
• using digital tools to gather, classify and summarise results of class surveys or interviews on topics (students’ likes, interests, family, neighbourhood, activities, habits, etc.) and presenting findings in chosen formats, for example, ひるごはんになにをたべますか。日よう日になにをしますか。しゅうまつにどこに行きますか。
• listening to, reading or viewing First Nations Australian authors’ stories and responding to them in spoken or written Japanese
• responding to structured stimulus questions about characters, places, events or effects in imaginative texts (stories, films, anime, etc.) using modelled language and formulaic expressions to express reactions, for example, やさしい人、おもしろいはなしですね、ちょっとこわいですよ、たのしかったです、びっくりしました！
• reading and viewing texts (anime, manga, video clips, lyrics of J-pop, etc.) and responding to questions about characters, lyrics or events, for example, だれですか、なまえはなんですか、なんのイベントですか、どこですか or recreating elements using a storyboard, timeline or original performance
• identifying common themes, key messages, values, or issues in Japanese texts, such as the moral of a story or folk tale, and noticing concepts that may be similar or different across cultures, for example, おんがえし, working hard, consideration of others and humility

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANJAP7_10Y78

Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 8, students use Japanese language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions, and recognise familiar gestures, questions and instructions in exchanges. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in Japanese or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, and modelled sentence and grammatical structures to create texts, and demonstrate understanding of how some language reflects cultural practices. They use some familiar katakana and kanji, and hiragana, with support.Students approximate Japanese sound patterns, intonation and rhythms, and recognise the relationship between spoken and written forms. They demonstrate understanding that Japanese has conventions and rules for scripts, non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of Japanese and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the Japanese language is connected with culture and identity, and how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.