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AC9LJ8U01: Year 7 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LJ8U01 Year 7 Languages

AC9LJ8U01 – 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

apply knowledge of conventions of spoken Japanese and phrasing patterns to enhance fluency, and to respond to and create texts in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

  • • accurately pronouncing all combinations of kana, including voiced and unvoiced elements, and all combined sounds (contractions and blends)
  • • understanding how to make some appropriate pauses and allowing for interjection, for example, dividing up a sentence into cohesive chunks to allow for the use of simple あいづち, for example, うん、そうですね。
  • • using available combinations of katakana to experiment with Japanese pronunciation of unfamiliar loan words, for example, ホワイトボード
  • • understanding the connection between written representation of tone and emotion and verbal expression, for example, observing how particle use shifts tone as well as meaning そうですね、そうですか。
  • • approximating unfamiliar words in katakana by applying an understanding of Japanese sound and recognising 2 ways of reading some kanji: a ‘Japanese way’ (a kun-yomi) and a Chinese way’ (an on-yomi)
  • • using furigana to support the reading of unknown kanji
  • • recognising that in the copula です, and the verb suffix ます, the ‘u’ is devoiced in normal speech
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  • • applying knowledge of the sounds of Japanese by using a keyboard with romaji input settings to type 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 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.