Japanese Language Program at OLR

Language, culture and learning​​

​​The interrelationship of language, culture and learning provides the foundation for the Australian Curriculum: Languages.  

In the Languages learning area the focus is on both language and culture, as students learn to communicate meaningfully across linguistic and cultural systems, and different contexts. This process involves reflection and analysis, as students move between the new language being learnt and their own existing language(s). It is a reciprocal and dynamic process which develops language use within intercultural dimensions of learning experiences. It is not a ‘one plus one’ relationship between two languages and cultures, where each language and culture stay separate and self-contained. Comparison and referencing between (at least) two languages and cultures build understanding of how languages ‘work’, how they relate to each other and how language and culture shape and reflect experience; that is, the experience of language using and language learning. The experience of being in two worlds at once involves noticing, questioning and developing awareness of how language and culture shape identity.

Our Lady of the Rosary School offers Japanese language classes across all year levels from Prep to Year 6. Prep - Yr 4 undertake 30 minutes of Japanese per week and our Yr 5 - Yr 6  classes attend two lessons totalling 90 minutes per​ week. We are pleased to announce our Japanese program has received a grant from the Japan Foundation.  We look forward to enhancing learning and engaging students with the new and exciting resources purchased.​

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