Chinese
Year Level Description
AIM Stage 3a: Learning
This stage is completed over two years, begun in Year 5 and concluded in Year 6.
At this stage, students begin to work towards a communicative proficiency level. With minimal teacher support, they explore in-depth the dramatised stories. They continue to expand their repertoire to spontaneously express themselves and manipulate the pinyin texts with relative ease, fluency and confidence. Students use a wider range of multimedia texts and deepen their intercultural knowledge and language awareness.
Achievement Standard
In Year 5 students begin working towards these achievement standards and on completion of Year 6, they demonstrate the following skills.
Communication Skills Development
- Expresses simple complete thoughts in guided, teacher-led self-expression.
- Displays knowledge of high frequency associations.
- Interacts spontaneously with peers and the teacher at a basic level.
- Expresses partial and short complete thoughts, with the help of gestures.
Literacy Skills Development
- Understands the vocabulary within the play and all plays to date.
- Memorises, rehearses and dramatises the play with the class, in pairs and in small groups.
- Completes more open-ended oral and written language manipulation activities based on the story.
- Demonstrates an inductive awareness of some basic, high frequency grammatical concepts, such as plural nouns, past tense, question words and the use of some interrogatives.
- Writes and types short Pinyin texts with the aid of a word list, for factual and creative purposes.
- Recognises and copies more high frequency characters, with an awareness of correct stroke order and proportion.
Intercultural Knowledge and Language Awareness
- Uses and evaluates effective language learning strategies e.g. grouping of characters.
- Demonstrates knowledge of aspects of Chinese culture through mini projects.
- Inductively identifies aspects of China through the viewing of popular contemporary TV programs, animations and songs.
