AC9LCH10EC03 Year 9 Languages

AC9LCH10EC03 – Year 9 Languages: Mediating meaning in and between languages

Strand

Communicating meaning in Chinese

Substrand

Mediating meaning in and between 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.

Content Descriptor

analyse and evaluate information, ideas and perspectives in a range of spoken, written and multimodal texts, and respond appropriately to cultural context, purpose and audience

Elaborations

• evaluating key messages in contemporary texts such as magazines, newspapers, websites or podcasts designed for Chinese-speaking high-school students, and writing a review about the content
• listening to or reading texts and analysing how language conveys meaning, such as rhetorical questions, irony or sarcasm in texts, for example, 你不会真想去参加铁人三项吧？
• applying understanding of news articles and other formal text types to create their own response to contemporary issues in Chinese-speaking communities, for example, 人口老龄化
• listening to or reading a First Nations Australian author’ story in English, and presenting or writing a reflective personal response in Chinese
• accessing a range of digital and other texts such as books, documentaries or interviews, to collate and present information about current affairs, for example, creating a multimodal presentation on recycling, education in rural communities or the impact of social media on young people
• analysing and evaluating information obtained from a range of sources, including statistical data, quotations or research-based evidence, to develop an overview on matters such as public health or safety, environmental pollution, population change or rapid urbanisation
• evaluating print or digital resources for reliability and referencing them appropriately, such as researching popular careers in a particular society and giving a speech to justify choice, for example, 有一篇文章中说 ... (BL) 根据2022年搜狐网上有关未来职业的一篇文章 ... (L1)

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• exploring how different forms of entertainment are used to express or reflect contemporary issues, for example, analysing 春晚小品 and how the topics are related to the trending events of the year
• creating a simplified or a more detailed script in response to a movie such as a science-fiction story, and using terms derived from the movie in their own script, for example, 《霹雳贝贝》，《流浪地球》
• identifying choices of words and phrasing that influence a reader’s response to texts, such as language to persuade the reader to endorse the writer’s views, and then applying this in their own writing, for example, 难道不是每一个有良知的人都会认同吗？

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANCHIBFL7-1Y910

Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard

By the end of Year 10, students initiate and extend interactions in Chinese language to exchange and compare ideas, opinions and experiences about their own and others’ personal worlds. They incorporate non-verbal, spoken and written language to collaborate, plan and reflect on activities and events. They evaluate and synthesise information and ideas in texts and demonstrate understanding of different perspectives. They interpret, translate and analyse information, and respond in Chinese or English, adjusting language to convey meaning. They create texts, selecting and manipulating language for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. They enhance the cohesion of their spoken and written texts through the strategic use of language devices and structures. Students understand and apply nuances of spoken language to extend fluency. They select and apply knowledge of language conventions, structures and features to interact, make meaning and create texts. They support discussion of structures and features of texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own language use and cultural identity, and draw on their experience of learning Chinese, to discuss how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.