The Japanese curriculum is designed to equip students with linguistic competence and lifelong language acquisition skills. Additionally, students’ intercultural understanding is enhanced. Classes are interactive and focus on engaging activities, increasing the students’ confidence and communicative competence. Students may choose a single semester course or a full year of Japanese by selecting both courses.
School is a major part of everyone’s life, and the Japanese take education very seriously. In Unit 1, students learn how to talk about their school and the subjects that they take, and compare a normal day in Australia to a normal day in the life of a Japanese student. In Unit 2, students learn about special celebrations in Japan and some of the interesting aspects of Japanese culture that they may encounter should they travel to Japan. In our modern society, money plays an important role. But how do Japanese children learn about money?
All four skills of the language, speaking, listening, writing and reading, are assessed through a variety of instruments.
Miss Jo Bush
jbush@mfac.edu.au
