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 contribute to 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 apply and use complex sentences and structures to create and respond to spoken and written texts. They use a variety of tenses to sequence events and use language devices to enhance meaning and cohesion. They select and use a variety of characters appropriate to context, using Pinyin to transcribe spoken texts.
Students incorporate features, conventions and phrasing patterns of spoken Chinese including variations in intonation, rhythm and sounds, to enhance fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the conventions of spoken and written texts and the connections between them. They apply knowledge of grammar and character form and function, and 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
AC9LC10C01 initiate, sustain and extend exchanges in familiar and unfamiliar contexts related to students’ own and others’ experiences of the world, adjusting their language in response to others AC9LC10C02 contribute to discussions that involve diverse views to negotiate outcomes, address issues and compare cultural experiencesMediating meaning in and between languages
AC9LC10C03 evaluate and synthesise information, ideas and perspectives in a broad range of spoken, written and multimodal texts and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience AC9LC10C04 interpret and translate non-verbal, spoken and written interactions and texts to convey intercultural understanding in familiar and unfamiliar contextsCreating text in Chinese
AC9LC10C05 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
AC9LC10U01 apply features and conventions of spoken Chinese to extend fluency in responding to and creating texts in familiar and unfamiliar contexts AC9LC10U02 apply knowledge of sentence structures and character form and function to predict meaning and compose texts that contain some complex structures and ideas AC9LC10U03 reflect on and evaluate Chinese texts, using metalanguage to analyse language structures and featuresUnderstanding the interrelationship of language and culture
AC9LC10U04 reflect on and evaluate 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 | 2 | 8 |
| Communicating meaning in Chinese | Mediating meaning in and between languages | 2 | 18 |
| Communicating meaning in Chinese | Creating text in Chinese | 1 | 6 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding systems of language | 3 | 20 |
| Understanding language and culture | Understanding the interrelationship of language and culture | 1 | 6 |
| Total | 9 | 58 | |