AC9LJ8EU03 Year 7 Languages

AC9LJ8EU03 – 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

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

Elaborations

• identifying similarities and differences in Japanese and English writing systems, grammatical rules or the use of elements such as pronouns, particles and absence of articles
• developing metalanguage for communicating about language and structures, using terms such as noun, pronoun, verb, adjective and conjunction, and cross-referencing with knowledge of English language syntax and parts of speech
• identifying words of Japanese origin used in English, for example, judo, karaoke, karate, obento, tempura, and recognising how they may be expressed in Japanese compared with English
• recognising the use of words borrowed in Japanese from other languages such as English, French, Dutch and Portuguese, for example, サッカー、ゴルフ、パン、ランドセル and noting how these are pronounced by Japanese speakers

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.