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Japanese / Year 7 and 8 / Understanding language and culture / Understanding systems of language
Curriculum content descriptions
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 (AC9LJ8U01)
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
- 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
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Language modes, Intonation, Japanese language