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AC9LCH10U02: Year 9 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding language and culture
AC9LCH10U02 Year 9 Languages

AC9LCH10U02 – 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 knowledge of character form and function, and complex grammatical structures and features, to predict meaning and to compose a wide range of texts

Elaborations

  • • using knowledge of components to look up new characters in print dictionaries and using the characters in their own writing
  • • exploring the changes of meaning for the same characters in different contexts and using them in their own expression, for example, 你这是什么意思？ 这是我的一点小意思。
  • • predicting meanings of complex characters, using knowledge of pictographs, for example, 鬣, 鳜, 鲷, 麋
  • • determining the precise meanings of character morphemes by referring to the context, for example, 一封信 and 相信, 企图 and 地图
  • • applying knowledge of characters and functions to compose a wide range of texts, for example, 山水, 山山水水, 山清水秀
  • • applying knowledge of punctuation in a range of complex texts, for example, using the double-angle quotation marks《》, inverted commas for sarcasm, brackets for further explanations and ellipses to indicate hesitation
  • • applying knowledge of characters with multiple meanings, modal verbs and auxiliary verbs, in a range of texts
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  • • applying knowledge of tense in Chinese, in a variety of formal or informal text types, for a range of audiences and purposes, for example, reports, plans and diaries
  • • responding appropriately to a range of stimuli with different purposes such as sarcasm, exclamatory sentences or factor statements, for example, 您过奖了!
  • • identifying how various sentence structures are used to convey messages effectively, and responding to a range of stimuli such as a television program or a radio talk show, using complex sentence structures
  • • comparing known simplified characters with traditional characters and discussing differences

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.