Year 3 Chinese Achievement Standard – Australian Curriculum v9
This Achievement Standard describes what students are expected to know and do in Year 3 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 4, students use Chinese language to initiate structured interactions to share information related to the classroom and their personal world. They use modelled language to participate in spoken and written activities that involve planning. They locate and respond to key items of information in texts using strategies to help interpret and convey meaning in familiar contexts. They use modelled language and basic syntax to create texts. They use familiar characters appropriate to context and make connections with the spelling and tone marks of Pinyin.
Students imitate sounds, tones, pronunciation, and intonation patterns of Chinese language. They demonstrate understanding that Chinese has non-verbal, spoken and written language conventions and rules to create and make meaning. They recognise that some terms have cultural meanings. They identify patterns in Chinese and make comparisons between Chinese and English. They understand that the Chinese language is connected with culture, and identify how this is reflected in their own language(s) and culture(s).
Content Descriptors by Strand
This standard is supported by 9 Content Descriptors:
Communicating meaning in Chinese
Interacting in Chinese
AC9LC4C01 initiate exchanges and respond to modelled questions about self, others, and classroom environment, using formulaic expressions AC9LC4C02 participate in activities that involve planning and transacting with others, using a range of familiar phrases and modelled structuresMediating meaning in and between languages
AC9LC4C03 locate and respond to key information related to familiar content obtained from spoken, written and multimodal texts AC9LC4C04 develop strategies to comprehend and adjust Chinese language in familiar contexts to convey cultural meaningCreating text in Chinese
AC9LC4C05 create and present informative and imaginative spoken, written and multimodal texts using formulaic expressions, simple sentences and modelled textual conventions, familiar characters appropriate to context, and/or PinyinUnderstanding language and culture
Understanding systems of language
AC9LC4U01 recognise and use modelled combinations of sounds, tone-syllable pronunciation and intonation patterns to form words and phrases, and understand that Pinyin is the romanisation of characters AC9LC4U02 recognise some features of the Chinese writing system, familiar components and/or characters, simple sentence structures and basic syntax, in familiar texts and contexts AC9LC4U03 recognise familiar Chinese language features and compare with those of English, in known contextsUnderstanding the interrelationship of language and culture
AC9LC4U04 identify connections between Chinese language and cultural practicesAt a Glance
| Strand | Substrand | CDs | Elaborations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communicating meaning in Chinese | Interacting in Chinese | 2 | 10 |
| Communicating meaning in Chinese | Mediating meaning in and between languages | 2 | 11 |
| Communicating meaning in Chinese | Creating text in Chinese | 1 | 7 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language | 3 | 18 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture | 1 | 8 |
| Total | 9 | 54 | |