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Year 9 Chinese Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
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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 maintain and extend interactions in Chinese language in increasingly unfamiliar contexts related to a wide range of interests and issues. They interpret texts by evaluating and synthesising information, ideas and perspectives. They show understanding of how features of language can be used to influence audience response. They create texts, selecting and manipulating language for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. They enhance the overall meaning and cohesion of their spoken and written texts through the strategic use of language structures and features.

Students incorporate the features and conventions of spoken Chinese to extend fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the conventions of spoken and written texts and the connections between them. They apply knowledge of language structures and features to make and predict meaning. They support analysis of Chinese texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own cultural perspectives and identity, and draw on their experience of learning Chinese, to evaluate 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

AC9LCH10C01 initiate, sustain and extend exchanges in a range of contexts, responding to ideas, opinions and perspectives AC9LCHC10C02 contribute to discussions that involve diverse views to negotiate outcomes, address issues and compare cultural experiences

Mediating meaning in and between languages

AC9LCH10C03 analyse and evaluate information, ideas and perspectives in a broad range of spoken, written and multimodal texts and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience AC9LCH10C04 interpret and translate a range of non-verbal, spoken and written texts, and explain how meaning is conveyed to reflect cultural context, purpose and audience

Creating text in Chinese

AC9LCH10C05 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 audiences

Understanding language and culture

AC9LCH10U01 apply features and conventions of spoken Chinese to extend fluency in responding to and creating texts appropriate to contexts, purposes and audiences AC9LCH10U02 apply knowledge of character form and function, and complex grammatical structures and features, to predict meaning and to compose a wide range of texts AC9LCH10U03 analyse a range of Chinese texts, using metalanguage to explain linguistic, textual and cultural elements

Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture

AC9LCH10U04 reflect on and evaluate how their own and others’ identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), attitudes, beliefs and values, and how these affect ways of communicating

At 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 18
Communicating meaning in Chinese Creating text in Chinese 1 10
Understanding language and culture 3 25
Understanding language and culture Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture 1 6
Total 9 75

Frequently Asked Questions

What should students know by the end of Year 9 Chinese?
By the end of Year 10, students maintain and extend interactions in Chinese language in increasingly unfamiliar contexts related to a wide range of interests and issues. They interpret texts by evaluating and synthesising information, ideas and perspectives. They show understanding of how features of language can be used to influence audience response. They create texts, selecting and manipulating language for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. They enhance the overall meaning and cohesion of their spoken and written texts through the strategic use of language structures and features. Students incorporate the features and conventions of spoken Chinese to extend fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the conventions of spoken and written texts and the connections between them. They apply knowledge of language structures and features to make and predict meaning. They support analysis of Chinese texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own cultural perspectives and identity, and draw on their experience of learning Chinese, to evaluate how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.
How many Content Descriptors support this standard?
9 Content Descriptors support this Achievement Standard (Communicating meaning in Chinese: 2, Communicating meaning in Chinese: 2, Communicating meaning in Chinese: 1, Understanding language and culture: 3, Understanding language and culture: 1).
How does this compare to Year 7?
The Year 7 Chinese standard (ASLANCHISLF10Y78) covers the preceding year level. Standards build progressively, with Year 9 expectations extending what was introduced in Year 7.
Is this from the latest Australian Curriculum?
Yes, this Achievement Standard is from the Australian Curriculum version 9.0 (AC v9), the most current version published by ACARA.