AC9LC8EU03 Years 7 to 8 Languages

Content descriptor compare Chinese language structures and features with English, using familiar metalanguage

Elaborations

• • Elaboration explaining the concept of ‘tense’ across languages, for example, asking, “What tense is used in English to share ideas about a future activity?”, “Can you exemplify how the future tense is expressed in English and in Chinese?” 我明天去北京, 下个星期去上海
• • Elaboration applying processes of discourse development by joining, contrasting and sequencing using 也, 和, 但是, 就, and exploring the use of cohesive devices and ways of extending, sequencing and elaborating ideas, for example, through the use of connectives, conjunctions and subject pronouns and comparing these with English cohesive devices
• • Elaboration describing the major features of familiar text types in Chinese (narratives, etc.) and experimenting with analysing Chinese texts, for example, recognising the ‘problem’ and the ‘resolution’ in a narrative
• • Elaboration comparing textual features and language used in different types of written communication within and across languages, for example, comparing the formatting of a letter and an email in English and then in Chinese and identifying the differences for each text type in each language
• • Elaboration experimenting with features of text presentation in Chinese, for example, text direction, word spacing, punctuation, and overall paragraph format when using squared paper
• • Elaboration comparing writing across languages, recognising differences in stroke sequences and word formation (letter strings versus character squares), word spacing, punctuation and text direction