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AC9LC10EU03: Year 9 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LC10EU03 Year 9 Languages

AC9LC10EU03 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 Languages provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

Content Descriptor

reflect on and evaluate Chinese texts, using metalanguage to discuss language structures and features

Elaborations

  • • comparing features of narrative, recount, report and procedural texts to identify ways in which information is structured and sequenced for particular purposes
  • • analysing and explaining the organisation and development of ideas or an argument in a range of genres, including textual features such as paragraphing
  • • applying understanding of genre to determine the purpose and intended message of a text, for example, the use of markers 第一步 and 第二步 in a recipe for fried rice
  • • recognising the purposes of texts and analysing features of format and language used, for example, in a diary, letter or advertisement

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANCHISL7_10Y910
Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard
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.