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AC9LCH8U01: Year 7 Languages Content Descriptor – Understanding language and culture
AC9LCH8U01 Year 7 Languages

AC9LCH8U01 – Year 7 Languages: Understanding language and culture

Strand
Understanding language and culture
Substrand
Understanding language and culture

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

use tone-syllables and apply intonation, stress and phrasing to develop fluency, and respond to and create texts in a range of contexts

Elaborations

  • • listening to short interactions between unfamiliar voices at diverse speeds or levels of clarity, to develop auditory and comprehension skills
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    developing tone discrimination and identifying subtle differences in pronunciation, including variations in regional accents, for example, distinguishing between qing and qin, lou and rou, liang and lan, shi and si, and lan and nan, fu and hu when listening to interactions

  • • differentiating pronunciation changes with 多音字, for example, 两行字, 自行车
  • • comparing their own Chinese speech patterns with Chinese pronunciation, and making adjustments to their pronunciation, intonation, stress and fluency
  • • practising ways in which tone varies according to setting and context, for example, saying the same sentence in different tones to change the meaning, such as being friendly/unfriendly, respectful/ironic and sincere/sarcastic
  • • noticing and describing differences in accent when listening to Chinese speakers from diverse regions

Achievement Standard This Supports

This Content Descriptor contributes to the following Achievement Standard:

Year 7 ASLANCHIBLLF-1Y78
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, and expressions to create texts and apply Chinese script conventions in written texts. Students apply the conventions of spoken Chinese to develop fluency. They demonstrate understanding that spoken, written and multimodal texts use different language conventions, structures and features to convey meaning. They comment on structures and features of Chinese text, using metalanguage. They reflect on how Chinese language, culture and identity are interconnected, and compare this with their own language(s), culture(s) and identity.