Recommended Background: Satisfactory completion of Year 8 Chinese.
Course Outline:
Students are working towards, sustain extended interactions with diverse individuals and groups, selecting spoken and written language for precision and for effect on participants. Students collate and evaluate a range of spoken, written and multimodal sources to convey different perspectives to different audiences. They select and organise ideas, adapting language, style, register and textual features to mediate these ideas for a range of audiences who speak Chinese or English or both. They respond to authentic texts and create a range of persuasive, informative and imaginative texts. Students apply features of prosody in their own speech. They apply understanding of character components and morphemes to their own writing. They reflect on their own experiences of interacting across diverse linguistic and cultural contexts, and move readily between languages and cultures.
Students demonstrate metalinguistic awareness across Chinese and English and identify similarities and differences in the structure and framing of both languages. They make and justify choices on how they present themselves and their ideas to audiences who speak either language. They analyse how language features and devices are used to achieve different purposes. Students explain how language and languages vary with time and according to situation and context. They identify evidence showing how texts reflect the cultural background and values of the author and different perspectives.
Topics Covered:
The communication skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing acquired in Year 8 are further developed. Emphasis is placed on learning to use the language. Life in China is explored in more detail through topics which include: School Life, School Routines, Food and Drink and Clothing.
Assessment: Assessment tasks consist of a variety of activities and exercises covering the Communicating and Understanding strands of the Australian Curriculum.
Length of course: Full year
Recommended Background: Satisfactory completion of Year 8 Chinese.
Course Outline:
Students are working towards, sustain extended interactions with diverse individuals and groups, selecting spoken and written language for precision and for effect on participants. Students collate and evaluate a range of spoken, written and multimodal sources to convey different perspectives to different audiences. They select and organise ideas, adapting language, style, register and textual features to mediate these ideas for a range of audiences who speak Chinese or English or both. They respond to authentic texts and create a range of persuasive, informative and imaginative texts. Students apply features of prosody in their own speech. They apply understanding of character components and morphemes to their own writing. They reflect on their own experiences of interacting across diverse linguistic and cultural contexts, and move readily between languages and cultures.
Students demonstrate metalinguistic awareness across Chinese and English and identify similarities and differences in the structure and framing of both languages. They make and justify choices on how they present themselves and their ideas to audiences who speak either language. They analyse how language features and devices are used to achieve different purposes. Students explain how language and languages vary with time and according to situation and context. They identify evidence showing how texts reflect the cultural background and values of the author and different perspectives.
Topics Covered:
The communication skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing acquired in Year 8 are further developed. Emphasis is placed on learning to use the language. Life in China is explored in more detail through topics which include: School Life, School Routines, Food and Drink and Clothing.
Assessment:
Assessment tasks consist of a variety of activities and exercises covering the Communicating and Understanding strands of the Australian Curriculum.
Additional Costs:
Nil