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AC9LC8U01: Year 7 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding systems of language
AC9LC8U01 Year 7 Languages

AC9LC8U01 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding systems of language

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding systems of language

This Content Descriptor from Year 7 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

apply knowledge of conventions of spoken Chinese to enhance fluency, and to respond to and create texts in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts

Elaborations

  • • experimenting with rhythm, voice, emotion and gesture to convey the intended sentiment and meaning of songs and rhymes to enhance performance
  • • recognising and using features of the Chinese sound system, discriminating use of tones, rhythm and sound flow, for example, differentiating pronunciation, intonation and stress when listening to short texts 四是四, 十是十, 十四是十四, 四十是四十
  • • listening to interactions between unfamiliar voices at diverse speeds or levels of clarity to develop auditory and comprehension skills, for example, discriminating between the range of vowel and consonant combinations, ‘qin’ versus ‘qing’ and ‘chi’ versus ‘ci’
  • • analysing characters containing a common component or side, for example, explaining the features of position, phonetic function and range of sounds in the characters 请, 清, 情, 晴, 精, 睛, 猜
  • • estimating the probable sound and meaning of characters based on understanding of familiar components and phonetic sides when reading unfamiliar texts, for example, 鸡, 鸭, 鹅 and 爸, 吧, 把
  • • examining the diverse meanings of words that share similar sounds such as the many meanings of the sound ‘shi’, and learning how to differentiate between 同音词 and 近音词 in different contexts, for example, 买东西 and 卖东西
  • • exploring changes in neutral tone and identifying patterns to aid their own pronunciation and flow of expression, for example, demonstrating understanding the use of neutral tone for the second syllable when it repeats or does not contribute to the meaning of the first syllable 妈妈, 孩子

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANCHISLF10Y78
Year 7 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 8, students initiate and maintain interactions in Chinese language in familiar and some unfamiliar contexts related to a range of interests and experiences. They use Chinese to collaborate and problem-solve, and adjust language in response to others. They interpret information, ideas and opinions in texts. They demonstrate understanding of similarities and differences between languages, in both familiar and some unfamiliar cultural contexts, by adjusting and reorganising responses. They select and use vocabulary, sentence structures, expressions and levels of formality, to create texts. They select and use characters appropriate to context and begin to use Pinyin to transcribe spoken words and short modelled sentences.Students apply the conventions of spoken Chinese, including differences in sounds and tones, to develop fluency and demonstrate understanding of writing system features and the role and function of character components. They demonstrate understanding that spoken, written and multimodal texts use different conventions, features and linguistic structures to convey meaning. They comment on structures and features of Chinese text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how the Chinese language, culture(s) and identity are interconnected, and compare this with their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.