Year 9 Chinese Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 9 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 10, students initiate and extend interactions in Chinese language to exchange and compare ideas, opinions and experiences about their own and others’ personal worlds. They incorporate non-verbal, spoken and written language to collaborate, plan and reflect on activities and events. They evaluate and synthesise information and ideas in texts and demonstrate understanding of different perspectives. They interpret, translate and analyse information, and respond in Chinese or English, adjusting language to convey meaning. They create texts, selecting and manipulating language for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. They enhance the cohesion of their spoken and written texts through the strategic use of language devices and structures.
Students understand and apply nuances of spoken language to extend fluency. They select and apply knowledge of language conventions, structures and features to interact, make meaning and create texts. They support discussion of structures and features of texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own language use and cultural identity, and draw on their experience of learning Chinese, to discuss how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.
Content Descriptors by Strand
This standard is supported by 9 Content Descriptors:
Communicating meaning in Chinese
Interacting in Chinese
AC9LCH10EC01 initiate, sustain and extend exchanges in a range of contexts, responding to ideas, opinions and perspectives about their own and others’ personal worlds AC9LCH10EC02 contribute to discussions that involve diverse views to negotiate outcomes, address issues and compare cultural experiencesMediating meaning in and between languages
AC9LCH10EC03 analyse and evaluate information, ideas and perspectives in a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience AC9LCH10EC04 interpret and translate a range of non-verbal, spoken and written texts, and explain how meaning is conveyed to reflect cultural context, purpose and audienceCreating text in Chinese
AC9LCH10EC05 create and present informative and imaginative texts for diverse contexts and purposes, selecting vocabulary, expressions, sentence structures and textual features and conventions, to engage different audiencesUnderstanding language and culture
Understanding systems of language
AC9LCH10EU01 demonstrate how features and conventions of spoken Chinese can extend fluency when responding to and creating texts appropriate to contexts, purposes and audiences AC9LCH10EU02 apply knowledge of character form and function, and complex grammatical structures and features, to predict meaning and to compose a wide range of texts AC9LCH10EU03 analyse a range of Chinese texts, using metalanguage to explain linguistic, textual and cultural elementsUnderstanding the interrelationship of language and culture
AC9LCH10EU04 reflect on and evaluate how their own and others’ identify is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values, and how these affect ways of communicatingAt a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communicating meaning in Chinese | Interacting in Chinese | 2 | 16 |
| Communicating meaning in Chinese | Mediating meaning in and between languages | 2 | 21 |
| Communicating meaning in Chinese | Creating text in Chinese | 1 | 10 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language | 3 | 30 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture | 1 | 9 |
| Total | 9 | 86 | |