Chinese: Second Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 3 and 4 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Reproduce key Chinese characters from familiar contexts using stroke types and sequences, and component forms and their arrangement
Elaborations
engaging with a range of basic characters and components and exploring their individual meanings, for example, 大 , 小，足，手
exploring the process of character construction, including counting the number of strokes, describing the shape of strokes, differentiating between similar strokes, and following general rules of stroke order
making connections between basic characters and related component forms (for example, radicals like 手 and 扌;人 and 亻), and recognising the number and arrangement of components in a compound character, for example, that 众 has three components and 打 has two components, that 亻(standing person) is on the left-hand side
exploring the concept of ‘word’ in Chinese and knowing that each character is a meaningful unit (morpheme) that is used to make up ‘words’ such as 白菜 (white + vegetable), 好朋友 (good + friend + friend), 男生 (male + student)
making connections between key morphemes in familiar words, for example, fruit group 水果、苹果 、果汁; vehicle group 汽车、火车、车子
