AC9LJ8U01 Years 7 to 8 Languages

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

• • Elaboration accurately pronouncing all combinations of kana, including voiced and unvoiced elements, and all combined sounds (contractions and blends)
• • Elaboration 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。
• • Elaboration using available combinations of katakana to experiment with Japanese pronunciation of unfamiliar loan words, for example, ホワイトボード
• • Elaboration 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。
• • Elaboration 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)
• • Elaboration using furigana to support the reading of unknown kanji
• • Elaboration recognising that in the copula です, and the verb suffix ます, the ‘u’ is devoiced in normal speech

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• • Elaboration 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