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AC9LCH10U01: Year 9 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding language and culture
AC9LCH10U01 Year 9 Languages

AC9LCH10U01 – Year 9 Languages: Understanding language and culture

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding language and culture

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

apply features and conventions of spoken Chinese to extend fluency in responding to and creating texts appropriate to contexts, purposes and audiences

Elaborations

  • • delivering authentic speech to a range of audiences, using appropriate intonation and stress, for example, a welcome speech to international visitors
  • • analysing a dialogue or a text, identifying the tone patterns and rhythm, and developing their own texts with similar features, for example, 我长得虽然有点歪，但我跑起来可真快，如果你不信，那就跟我来，我保证让你目瞪口呆！
  • • developing strategies to understand meaning when listening to diverse, regional Chinese accents, for example, inferring meaning from context
  • • comparing their own Chinese speech patterns with a range of accents, and creating talk show scripts using different accents
  • • watching a range of Chinese performances such as 山东快书 and performing their own version to the class, addressing the variation of tones, stress and rhythm, and analysing the similarities and differences between accents, making necessary adjustments when communicating with different audiences
  • • using appropriate intonation and pronunciation when quoting sayings from traditional literature, for example, lines from poems such as 五言绝句

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 9 ASLANCHIBLLF-1Y910
Year 9 Languages Achievement Standard
By the end of Year 10, students maintain and extend interactions in Chinese language in increasingly unfamiliar contexts related to a wide range of interests and issues. They interpret texts by evaluating and synthesising information, ideas and perspectives. They show understanding of how features of language can be used to influence audience response. They create texts, selecting and manipulating language for a range of contexts, purposes and audiences. They enhance the overall meaning and cohesion of their spoken and written texts through the strategic use of language structures and features. Students incorporate the features and conventions of spoken Chinese to extend fluency. They demonstrate understanding of the conventions of spoken and written texts and the connections between them. They apply knowledge of language structures and features to make and predict meaning. They support analysis of Chinese texts, using metalanguage. They reflect on their own cultural perspectives and identity, and draw on their experience of learning Chinese, to evaluate how this learning influences their ideas and ways of communicating.