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 familiar contexts. They respond to others’ contributions, and recognise familiar gestures, questions and instructions in exchanges. They recognise relationships between spoken and written forms. They locate and respond to information in texts and use non-verbal, visual and contextual cues to help make meaning. They respond in Chinese or English, and demonstrate understanding of context, purpose and audience in texts. They use familiar language, and modelled sentence and grammatical structures to create texts, and demonstrate understanding of how some language reflects cultural practices. They use some familiar characters and Pinyin to support learning.
Students approximate Chinese sound patterns, tones, intonation and rhythms, and recognise the function of tone-syllables and Pinyin. They demonstrate understanding that Chinese has rules for characters, grammar, non-verbal, spoken and written communication. They comment on aspects of Chinese and English language structures and features, using metalanguage. They demonstrate awareness that the Chinese language is connected with culture and identity, and how this is reflected in their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.
Content Descriptors by Strand
This standard is supported by 10 Content Descriptors:
Communicating meaning in Chinese
Interacting in Chinese
AC9LC8EC01 interact with others using modelled language to exchange information in familiar contexts about self and personal world AC9LC8EC02 develop Chinese language to interact in classroom exchanges, routines, tasks and responsibilities AC9LC8EC03 engage in modelled non-verbal, spoken and written exchanges with peers to organise activities relating to daily life and school environmentMediating meaning in and between languages
AC9LC8EC04 locate and process information and ideas in familiar spoken, written and multimodal texts, responding in ways appropriate to cultural context, purpose and audience AC9LC8EC05 develop and begin to apply strategies to interpret, translate and convey meaning in Chinese in familiar contextsCreating text in Chinese
AC9LC8EC06 create spoken, written and multimodal informative and imaginative texts, for familiar contexts and purposes using appropriate vocabulary, expressions, sentence structures and some textual conventions, and familiar characters and/or PinyinUnderstanding language and culture
Understanding systems of language
AC9LC8EU01 recognise and use tone-syllable pronunciation and intonation patterns to form words and phrases, and Pinyin to support learning pronunciation AC9LC8EU02 develop knowledge of, and use sentence structures, characters and writing system features, to understand and create spoken, written and multimodal texts AC9LC8EU03 compare Chinese language structures and features with English, using familiar metalanguageUnderstanding the interrelationship of language and culture
AC9LC8EU04 recognise how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), beliefs, attitudes and valuesAt a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communicating meaning in Chinese | Interacting in Chinese | 3 | 13 |
| Communicating meaning in Chinese | Mediating meaning in and between languages | 2 | 16 |
| Communicating meaning in Chinese | Creating text in Chinese | 1 | 7 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language | 3 | 21 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture | 1 | 8 |
| Total | 10 | 65 | |