Year 7 Chinese Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 7 Languages by the end of the year. Teachers can use it to guide assessment design, collect evidence of learning, and ensure planning stays aligned with the Australian Curriculum v9.
What Students Should Know
By the end of Year 8, students use Chinese language to interact and collaborate with others, and to share information and plan activities in a range of contexts. They respond to others’ contributions, and use culturally-appropriate gestures, questions and instructions in exchanges. They understand relationships between spoken and written forms. They interpret non-verbal, visual and contextual cues and translate and analyse information in texts. They respond in Chinese or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They manipulate language and grammatical structures and features to create spoken and written texts. They apply their knowledge of script conventions in written texts.
Students apply tones, pronunciation and intonation authentically. They use Chinese conventions and rules for non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They compare aspects of Chinese and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They reflect on and explain that the Chinese language is connected with culture and identity, and that this connection is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.
Content Descriptors by Strand
This standard is supported by 9 Content Descriptors:
Communicating meaning in Chinese
Interacting in Chinese
AC9LCH8EC01 initiate and sustain exchanges, related to students’ experiences and perspectives AC9LCH8EC02 engage in activities that involve planning, transacting and negotiating with peers, using a range of phrases, sentences and structures and featuresMediating meaning in and between languages
AC9LCH8EC03 locate and process information and ideas in a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, responding in ways appropriate to cultural context, purpose and audience AC9LCH8EC04 apply strategies to interpret, translate and convey meaning in familiar and some unfamiliar non-verbal, spoken and written cultural contextsCreating text in Chinese
AC9LCH8EC05 create spoken, written and multimodal informative and imaginative texts, using vocabulary, expressions, sentence structures, textual conventions and appropriate characters and/or Pinyin, to suit purpose and audienceUnderstanding language and culture
Understanding systems of language
AC9LCH8EU01 use tone-syllables and apply intonation, stress and phrasing to enhance fluency, and respond to and create texts in a range of contexts AC9LCH8EU02 use components and/or characters, sentence structures, syntax and writing system features to infer meaning and to compose and respond to familiar and some unfamiliar texts and contexts AC9LCH8EU03 compare and explain similarities and differences between Chinese and English language structures and features, using familiar metalanguageUnderstanding the interrelationship of language and culture
AC9LCH8EU04 reflect on and explain how their own and others’ identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and valuesAt a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communicating meaning in Chinese | Interacting in Chinese | 2 | 18 |
| Communicating meaning in Chinese | Mediating meaning in and between languages | 2 | 19 |
| Communicating meaning in Chinese | Creating text in Chinese | 1 | 9 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language | 3 | 27 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture | 1 | 9 |
| Total | 9 | 82 | |