AC9LC10U03
Years 9 to 10
Languages
AC9LC10U03 | Years 9 to 10 Chinese: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor reflect on and evaluate Chinese texts, using metalanguage to analyse language structures and features
Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 9 to 10 Chinese · Second language learners · Foundation to Year 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration identifying features of text structure (layout, expression, tone, etc.) and rhetorical devices (metaphor, exaggeration, etc.) used to convey a persuasive argument or position, and comparing this with English text types and structures
- • Elaboration applying knowledge of the interrelationship between language elements, structure, contexts, purpose and audience to a range of texts, for example, applying understanding of genre to determine the purpose and intended message of texts such as in a diary, letter or advertisement
- • Elaboration exploring the ways in which language can be manipulated to make ideas more objective, such as the removal of personal pronouns and opinions
- • Elaboration examining the use of 的 as a subject modifier to express ideas that would contain relative clauses in English, for example, 我昨天买的书不太贵
- • Elaboration describing orthographic features of new characters encountered, using metalanguage, including the structure, sequence and relationship of components, and explaining connections evident between form, sound and meaning
- • Elaboration viewing different types of texts on similar topics and recognising differences, especially the language used, in discourse of spoken and written texts such as 昨天街上人很多, 昨天街上人山人海
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