Chinese

Purpose

Year 10 Chinese will allow our students to continue studying Chinese as second language learners. Year 10 Chinese focuses on how writers and speakers, including the students themselves, make deliberate choices when using language features and text structures. Students understand and recognize that language is dynamic and is influenced by time, place, setting, participants and contexts. For example, interacting with Chinese-speaking students online will use different language features than using language to ask about items in a local Chinese grocery. 

When interacting with a range of texts, students identify how audience and purpose shape their own and others’ language choices and interpretation of them. Students use pinyin to transcribe spoken texts and characters to create written texts. Through identifying key ideas and comparing information from multiple sources such as news, interviews, podcasts and documentaries, they develop and substantiate their own position on topics of personal interest or issues of broader significance. Students explain how features of Chinese cultures and language shape their own and others’ communication practices and reflect on how their own cultural experience impacts on interactions with Chinese speakers. 

In the Year 10 curriculum, cultural experiences such as wedding customs, the food culture and birthday celebrations will be introduced and explored. Students will compare the customs and rituals in the past and the present.