JAPANESE @ CALARE

Konnichiwa! 

 

All K-6 students at Calare Public School participate in Japanese lessons. Each class studies Japanese for one 30-minute lesson per week.

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In K-2 the objective in the classes will be to stimulate students' interest in Japanese and to make learning a foreign language as fun, interesting and interactive as possible. Students engage in songs and games to learn about topics including: greetings, numbers, colours, and animals.

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In years 3 and 4, we will study the same topics but include a cultural aspects such as riding on the shinkansen, seasons, festivals and folktales.

 

In year 5 and 6, students will learn to recognize the basic Japanese alphabet, called hiragana. This is a 46 character phonetic alphabet. These classes will develeop oral communication skills and their intercultural understanding. These outcomes will be achieved through oral practice, song, games and other cultural activites. 

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Research demonstrates that learning another language assists in: 

- achieving higher results in literacy​ and numeracy

- improved memory

- longer attention span

- gives an insight into anohter culture 

- being more flexible, creative and divergent in their thinking

- building multitasking skills

- ability to switch between tasks 

- switching between two systems of speech, writing and structure

- developing a better ear for listening

​- having more flexible viewpoints on the broader world 

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Thankyou

ありがとうございました

arigatougozaimashita,

Bryce Ostini 
Japanese Teacher