AC9LC8EU02
Years 7 to 8
Languages
AC9LC8EU02 | Years 7 to 8 Chinese: Understanding systems of language
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor develop knowledge of, and use sentence structures, characters and writing system features, to understand and create spoken, written and multimodal texts
Second language learners · Years 7 to 10 sequence
Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language
This content descriptor sets out learning for Years 7 to 8 Chinese · Second language learners · Years 7 to 10 sequence. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration applying knowledge of characters to learn to read and write new characters, and developing strategies for learning, for example, making connections between characters with a common component 你, 他, 们
- • Elaboration learning the origins and features of components encountered in characters, and analysing the formation of characters, including recognising the frequency and positioning of common components such as 人, 女, 日, 月 and their function or relationship to a compound character such as 亻in 他, 认, 从
- • Elaboration identifying contextual meanings of key characters in diverse contexts, for example, 今天 versus 天空; 星期日 versus 日本; 你好 versus 好玩
- • Elaboration identifying the placement of time and place phrases; the use of conjunctions 和 to add information; 还是 and 或者 to offer or indicate choices, and the role of measure words such as 个, 只
- • Elaboration recognising markers of time such as 第二天 in a sequence of events to monitor information flow and assist reading for overall meaning
- • Elaboration analysing the variety of verb types found in Chinese, for example, adjectival verbs 高, 大 and modal verbs 会, 可以 and the placement and use of adverbs such as 都 to indicate inclusion; 就 to indicate sequence
- • Elaboration identifying the relationships between the meaning of individual characters in words and exploring how these frequently used characters apply in a wider range of word contexts
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- • Elaboration learning the number, nature and sequence of strokes; exploring the range of stroke types used in characters; learning to write with a focus on stroke direction and order, and on balance and proportion within the square
- • Elaboration exploring features and conventions of Chinese texts, including lack of word spacing or use of punctuation, comparing texts in traditional characters with texts in simplified characters such as 門, 门 and variability in text direction in Chinese and other scripts such as Arabic, Japanese and Hindi
- • Elaboration explaining the use of common suffixes 子, 里, 面 and key morphemes 电, 家, 物, 机
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