Languages- Japanese

Our Japanese Language program endeavours to provide students with essential communication skills, intercultural capabilities and an understanding of the role of language and culture in human communication. At Yangebup Primary School, our students begin their Japanese language learning journey in Year 1 and continue to develop language and cultural understanding through to Year 6.

 

We engage students in an enjoyable and varied Japanese program so that learning a second language is both fun and rewarding. We cover a variety of topics throughout the year, making sure that each year builds upon the last, increasing the opportunity for scaffolding. Students begin with basic greetings, numbers and colours and build to noun, adjective and verb sentences based on real-life topics.

 

In Japanese we make the most of technology to help us learn in Hiragana script while still making learning accessible to all students. Students use iPads and laptops as amazing tools to enrich and deepen their language learning processes. Students broaden their reading, writing, speaking and listening skills both independently and collaboratively, and leave proud of their achievements.

 

Students are given opportunities to engage with the language with real life interactions through incursions and connecting with Japanese exchange students.