AC9LJ2U01

Elaborations

• AC9LJ2U01_E1singing songs or repeating language after the teacher with a focus on practising and producing the 5 vowel sounds, and the consonant plus vowel sounds, using the hiragana chart and image-based mnemonics as reference
• AC9LJ2U01_E2recognising the concept of the basic unit of sound in Japanese ‘mora’: モーラ or 拍はく, for example, いいえ has 3 moras, which can be recognised as syllables in English, for example, clapping out the number of sounds in focus language, and guessing the number of syllables in a Japanese word by closing eyes and holding up one finger per syllable
• AC9LJ2U01_E3understanding that the independent nasal sound ‘n’ ん has a mora of its own, for example, こんにちは
• AC9LJ2U01_E4learning that statements and questions have different intonation patterns and using gestures to indicate the intonation patterns they hear, for example, the arm moving up when the intonation rises
• AC9LJ2U01_E5using mnemonic devices, and also making up their own, to remember the sounds and shapes of hiragana by associating them with pictures, for example, こ for coin
• AC9LJ2U01_E6understanding that one kana represents a basic unit of Japanese sound, for example, showing on the hiragana chart how each character represents one sound
• AC9LJ2U01_E7understanding that when pronouncing Japanese, it is important to keep the length of each mora even