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 sustain Chinese language to exchange and compare ideas and experiences about their own and others’ personal world. They communicate using non-verbal, spoken and written language to collaborate, plan and reflect on activities and events. They interpret and analyse information and ideas in texts and demonstrate understanding of different perspectives. They synthesise information and respond in Chinese or English, adjusting language to convey meaning and to suit context, purpose and audience. They use structures and features of spoken and written Chinese to create texts. They use familiar characters appropriate to context and Pinyin to transcribe spoken texts.
Students apply features of the Chinese sound system to enhance fluency, and discern differences in patterns of sound and tone in spoken language. They demonstrate understanding of the sound system in spoken exchanges and characters for written texts, and select and use sentence and grammatical structures 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 10 Content Descriptors:
Communicating meaning in Chinese
Interacting in Chinese
AC9LC10EC01 initiate and sustain interactions in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts to exchange ideas, experiences and opinions about their own and others’ personal world AC9LC10EC02 use Chinese language in exchanges to question, offer opinions and compare and discuss ideas AC9LC10EC03 use non-verbal, spoken and written exchanges to discuss, plan and reflect on activities, events and experiences with peersMediating meaning in and between languages
AC9LC10EC04 interpret information, ideas and perspectives in a wide range of spoken, written and multimodal texts and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience AC9LC10EC05 apply strategies to interpret and translate non-verbal, spoken and written interactions and texts, to convey meaning and intercultural understanding in familiar and unfamiliar contextsCreating text in Chinese
AC9LC10EC06 create spoken, written and multimodal informative and imaginative texts, selecting vocabulary, expressions, sentence structures and textual conventions for familiar and some unfamiliar contexts and purposes, to engage different audiencesUnderstanding language and culture
Understanding systems of language
AC9LC10EU01 apply features of the Chinese sound system, and discern differences in patterns of sound and tone, in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts AC9LC10EU02 select and use structures and features of the Chinese grammatical and writing systems to enhance and infer meaning, and create spoken, written and multimodal texts AC9LC10EU03 reflect on and evaluate Chinese texts, using metalanguage to discuss language structures and featuresUnderstanding the interrelationship of language and culture
AC9LC10EU04 reflect on and explain how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), beliefs, attitudes and values and how these affect ways of communicatingAt 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 | 18 |
| Communicating meaning in Chinese | Creating text in Chinese | 1 | 10 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language | 3 | 19 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture | 1 | 10 |
| Total | 10 | 70 | |