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AC9LJ8EU01: Year 7 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LJ8EU01 Year 7 Languages

AC9LJ8EU01 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

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

recognise and use features of the Japanese sound system, including pitch, rhythm, stress, pronunciation and intonation, and demonstrate understanding of how these are represented in familiar contexts

Elaborations

  • • pronouncing hiragana and katakana sounds, including voiced and unvoiced forms and all combined sounds (contractions and blends)
  • • recognising that in the copula です, and the verb suffix ます, the 'u' is devoiced in normal speech
  • • understanding the system of Japanese sound combinations: Japanese has 5 vowels; a vowel can be attached to all consonants except ん, and the basic unit of sound of Japanese is mora
  • • understanding that the sounds of hiragana and katakana are identical even though the associated scripts are different
  • • using available combinations of katakana to experiment with the Japanese pronunciation of loan words, for example, レストラン 、マクドナルド
  • • becoming familiar with the rhythm of Japanese, recognising the concept of the ‘foot’ フット as the minimum unit of rhythm, and that one foot in Japanese consists of 2 moras, for example, ごちそうさま is pronounced as a 3-foot word
  • • recognising the relationship between stress, pacing and meaning, and using appropriate intonation patterns for familiar language to exclaim, make statements or ask questions, for example, demonstrating fluency in reading a text aloud
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  • • applying knowledge of the sounds of Japanese by using a keyboard with romaji input to type modelled sentences and short paragraphs selecting hiragana, katakana or kanji appropriate to context

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.