Stage 2 Chinese - Background Speakers
Length of Course
Level
Learning Area
Core or Specialist
Pre-requisites
Stage 1 Chinese Background Speakers
Subject Description
Students will have the opportunity to develop and apply linguistic and intercultural knowledge, understanding, and skills to:
- Interact with others to exchange information, ideas, opinions, and experiences in Chinese
- Create texts in Chinese to express information, feelings, ideas, and opinions.
- Analyse texts that are in Chinese to interpret meaning
- Examine relationships between language, culture, and identity, and reflect on the ways in which culture influences communication
Students will have a grounded understanding of Chinese as a system. They will be able to use Chinese as the main medium for communication to enable them to engage with creative thought and expression in Chinese in an increasingly complex range of social and cultural contexts.
Students will be equipped with the potential to apply Chinese to work, further study, training or leisure.
Assessment Type 1: Folio (50%)
• Interaction
• Text Production
• Text Analysis
Assessment Type 2: In-depth Study (20%)
• An oral presentation in Chinese (5 to 7 minutes)
• A written response in Chinese (1000 characters)
• A written response in English (600 words)
Assessment Type 3: External Examination (30%)
• Oral presentation:
Section 1: Discussion
The 2-hour written examination has three sections:
Section 1: Listening and responding
Section 2: Reading and responding
Section 3: Writing in Chinese.
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