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Japanese / Foundation to Year 2 / Understanding / Role of language and culture
Curriculum content descriptions
Understand that language and culture are closely connected
[Key concepts: language, culture, meaning; Key processes: noticing, reflecting, questioning]
(ACLJAU126)
Elaborations
- exploring the meaning of ‘culture’, how it involves visible elements, such as ways of eating or symbols such as flags, and invisible elements, such as how people live, how they think about themselves and others and how they relate to their environment
- understanding that learning and using Japanese involves becoming familiar with some different ways of communicating, for example, いただきます、ごちそうさま, and also some ways of thinking about things and behaving that may be unfamiliar
- noticing similarities and differences between classroom interactions in Japanese and English, for example, referring to the teacher using only せんせい
- understanding that culture and cultural behaviours are woven into languages and cannot be separated from them, for example, it is possible to bow without a spoken greeting in Japanese but not to greet without bowing
General capabilities
Cross-curriculum priorities
ScOT terms
Culture, Japanese language