Japanese: F–10 Sequence / Foundation to Level 2 / Understanding / Role of language and culture
Content description
Understand that language and culture are closely connected
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
