Subject Code: 2CHD20 Length of course: Full year Credit points and TAS Status: 20 Credit TAS
Recommended Background: For students who have a background in the Chinese language and more than 1 year’s education in a country where Chinese is spoken
Precluded combinations with current SACE subjects: None
Course Outline:
The background speakers level languages are designed for students who have a background in the language and who have had more than 1 year's education in a country where the language is spoken.
Students develop intercultural communication skills through examining relationships between language, culture, and identity and reflecting on the ways in which culture is created, expressed, and communicated through language.
Students clarify, extend, and develop their ideas and opinions on the prescribed themes and contemporary issues, and develop their capability to communicate, interact, and negotiate meanings within and across languages and cultures.
Topics Covered:
There are four prescribed themes: China and the World, Modernisation and Social Change; The Overseas Chinese
Speaking Communities; Language in Use in Contemporary China.
The study of themes, presented through a range of texts, will enable students to reflect on, and respond to, aspects of the Language and Culture of Chinese-speaking communities. Students will develop skills in exchanging, analysing and evaluating information, opinions, and ideas.
Assessment:
School Assessment 70%
Five summative tasks (a mix of oral, written and text analysis)
In-Depth Study (Oral Presentation, Response in Chinese, Reflection in English)
External Assessment 30%
Oral (Conversation and Discussion),
Written (Listening and Responding, Reading and Responding, Writing in Chinese
Length of course: Full year
Credit points and TAS Status: 20 Credit TAS
Recommended Background: For students who have a background in the Chinese language and more than 1 year’s education in a country where Chinese is spoken
Precluded combinations with current SACE subjects:
None
Course Outline:
The background speakers level languages are designed for students who have a background in the language and who have had more than 1 year's education in a country where the language is spoken.
Students develop intercultural communication skills through examining relationships between language, culture, and identity and reflecting on the ways in which culture is created, expressed, and communicated through language.
Students clarify, extend, and develop their ideas and opinions on the prescribed themes and contemporary issues, and develop their capability to communicate, interact, and negotiate meanings within and across languages and cultures.
Topics Covered:
There are four prescribed themes: China and the World, Modernisation and Social Change; The Overseas Chinese
Speaking Communities; Language in Use in Contemporary China.
The study of themes, presented through a range of texts, will enable students to reflect on, and respond to, aspects of the Language and Culture of Chinese-speaking communities. Students will develop skills in exchanging, analysing and evaluating information, opinions, and ideas.
Assessment:
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