AC9LC8U03 Year 7 Languages

AC9LC8U03 – 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

reflect on similarities and differences between Chinese and English language structures and features, using metalanguage

Elaborations

• identifying similarities and differences between Chinese and English word order and sentence construction such as 我明天去飞机场
• exploring key features of Chinese phonology by comparing with English phonetics, for example, demonstrating understanding that each character is pronounced with one syllable
• teaching peers, other students of Chinese or a buddy class about how Chinese works, focusing on a particular structure using metalanguage and visual supports, for example, comparing text direction in a Chinese language story book with English language and reading the story to students, indicating the direction as the story is read

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.