Japanese (Continuers)
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What will be in the course?

Students will strengthen their language and cultural understanding through a variety of meaningful and relevant themes, including Milestones, Language Learning, Healthy Eating, Shopping, and Leisure Activities. They will explore cultural comparisons between Japan and Australia while using increasingly complex Japanese language to express themselves in both spoken and written forms. Through face-to-face and digital interactions, students will develop their confidence in using Japanese for real-world purposes.

In this course, students will:

• Acquire a deeper understanding of how language works in the key areas of listening, speaking, reading and writing.
• Learn to communicate using more advanced grammar, such as the past tense, negative form, te-form, plain form, and various particles.
• Revise and strengthen their understanding of Katakana, and use combinations of kana and a range of kanji appropriate to the context.
• Develop skills to evaluate Japanese texts, using metalanguages to analyse language structures and features.
• Make cultural comparisons and reflect on differences and similarities between Japanese and Australian customs, lifestyles, and ways of thinking.
• Build the language skills and cultural knowledge to prepare for the Stage 1 SACE Japanese course.

At the end of the Year 10 Japanese program, students should be able to:

• Apply their understanding of language patterns, grammar rules, and writing systems to interact with others.
• Create and respond to spoken and written texts by selecting and using complex sentences and structures for a range of contexts, purposes, and audiences.
• Locate, analyse and evaluate information, ideas and perspectives in a broad range of spoken, written and multimodal texts.
• Make connections across texts and reflect on their own culture through the lens of language learning.