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AC9LJ8EU02
Understanding systems of language
develop knowledge of, and use structures and features of the Japanese grammatical and writing systems to understand and create spoken, written and multimodal texts
Elaborations
- AC9LJ8EU02_E1understanding the origins of Japanese script (kanji from China; hiragana was formed by simplifying the form of kanji, while katakana was formed using a part of kanji) and that modern Japanese uses all 3 scripts depending on word origins and context
- AC9LJ8EU02_E2understanding and using a range of particles to perform different functions, including sentence-ending particles such as か and ね
- AC9LJ8EU02_E3understanding that each individual kanji represents meaning as well as sound, for example, 日 (‘sun’, ‘day’), and that some kanji characters come from pictographs, for example, 山
- AC9LJ8EU02_E4understanding how to use い and な adjectives in the present and past tense, positive and negative, in basic sentences, for example, たのしい、たのしかった、 たのしくない、 ゆうめいな、 ゆうめいじゃない
- AC9LJ8EU02_E5understanding the use of furigana as a tool to support reading, and romaji to type in Japanese
- AC9LJ8EU02_E6understanding and using basic Japanese punctuation marks such as a まる (。)、てん (、), katakana long vowel mark (ー), and basic writing conventions involved when using げんこうようし
- AC9LJ8EU02_E7applying the principles of basic stroke order to write all kana and high-frequency kanji such as numbers, days of the week, family members, and basic adjectives and verbs
- AC9LJ8EU02_E8reading and writing all hiragana and katakana including voiced, contracted and blended sounds; understanding the systematic nature of the kana chart and Japanese grammar to support learning
- AC9LJ8EU02_E9using basic types of sentence structures in Japanese, understanding that word order of noun phrases is flexible as long as particle use is correct, and sentences end with a verb/copula: subject は noun です。, subject は adjective です。, subject は object/place を／に verb ます
- AC9LJ8EU02_E10using a range of familiar verbs in the present and past tense, including both positive and negative, for example, 行きます、見ません、たべました、ききませんでした
- AC9LJ8EU02_E11creating cohesion, flow and adding detail by using conjunctions そして、それから、でも, adverbs まい日、ときどき、とても and linking nouns and adjectives おいしくて、母と
- AC9LJ8EU02_E12counting from 1–100 and using some basic Japanese counters such as 人、才、月、日
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