AC9LC10U03 Year 9 Languages

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.

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

Elaborations

• 1 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
• 2 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
• 3 exploring the ways in which language can be manipulated to make ideas more objective, such as the removal of personal pronouns and opinions
• 4 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
• 5 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
• 6 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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