AC9LCH10EU03 Year 9 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.

analyse a range of Chinese texts, using metalanguage to explain linguistic, textual and cultural elements

Elaborations

• 1 using metalanguage in Chinese or English to identify the grammatical differences between languages, such as word order, verb moods, tenses, possessive pronouns, adjectives, participles and auxiliary verbs
• 2 analysing the sequence of content in different text types such as personal blogs or news articles, for example, headings, paragraphing, topic sentences, elaborations, topic/idea shifts (BL) and referencing (L1)
• 3 explaining the use of data such as census information and surveys, and in-text referencing, that writer's use to support and substantiate their views (BL)
• 4 incorporating statistical data, quotations and research-based evidence in their own texts, for example, 据统计， 计划生育政策实行以来， 中国的人口少生了三亿 (L1)
• 5 analysing language used in a range of text types, for example, comparing emails for a variety of purposes and identifying language reflecting different levels of formality (BL)
• 6 analysing language and writing techniques used in traditional Chinese, such as the 4 steps in composing an essay, referring to the phrase 起承转合 (L1)
• 7 analysing the layout of magazines and online texts to identify how the images, fonts and words reinforce understanding of the key ideas and writer’s position
• 8 identifying linguistic terms and considering the concise ways in which world events are reported in Chinese media, for example, identifying key language in reports on the Olympics
• 9 comparing literature across languages and cultures, and recognising different features, for example, identifying how magic and danger are portrayed in folk legends or stories, such as comparing 《西游记》and Harry Potter
• 10 exploring examples of literary language and how grammatical features differ from everyday text, for example, a mobile text message versus a novel (BL) or comparing 文言 and 白话 (L1)

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