Languages

French, Italian and Japanese

Content Strands

• Communicating
• Understanding

Course Overview

Students reflect on how culture is evident in experiences, images and texts. They understand and use metalanguage to explain aspects of language and culture and use simple statements to identify features of text types such as letters, emails, descriptions and narratives. They are aware that language reflects contexts of situation and culture, and recognise differences between standard, dialectal and regional forms of Italian. They analyse the impact of technology and media on communication and language forms, the influence of Italian and English on one another, and the interrelationship of language and culture. They reflect on how they interpret and respond to aspects of Italian language and culture, and to intercultural experience, and consider how their response may be shaped by their own language(s) and culture(s).

Learning Focus

By the end of Level 8, students engage in social interaction to exchange greetings and to share ideas and information related to their personal, social and school worlds. They use known phrases to exchange ideas and opinions. They participate in classroom routines and respond to classroom instructions, questions and directions. They use gesture and some formulaic expressions to support oral interaction. Students use well-rehearsed language related to their personal experiences (for example, stating preferences in sports, leisure activities and entertainment), in both spoken and written forms, and predominantly in the present tense. They demonstrate understanding of information from a range of factual and creative texts. They use learnt structures to create texts such as, captions, descriptions, conversations and correspondence, providing information about themselves, their personal worlds and immediate needs, interests and preferences.