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Japanese / Year 9 and 10 / Understanding / Systems of language
Curriculum content descriptions
Convey meaning by appropriately selecting and combining hiragana, katakana and kanji characters, and use understanding of kanji to predict meaning of unfamiliar words
[Key concepts: script forms and functions, meaning; Key processes: decoding, identifying, prediction]
(ACLJAU031)
Elaborations
- understanding that kanji are used for nouns, stems of verbs and adjectives, and some adverbs, and that the addition of hiragana to the stem of verbs and adjectives is called okurigana
- recognising that many kanji have multiple readings and that there are two types of readings, that is, on-yomi (音; on ‘reading’ or ‘sound’), Chinese-style pronunciation; and kun-yomi (訓; kun ‘reading’ or ‘explanation’), Japanese-style pronunciation
- developing strategies to guess the meaning of unknown words that contain familiar kanji, for example, 小学校、 中学校
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms
Japanese language, Kanji, Kana