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Content description VCZHU030

Chinese: Second Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 3 and 4 / Understanding / Language variation and change
Content description
Recognise that Chinese is spoken by communities in many countries
Elaborations
  1. investigating the use of Chinese in Australian communities and in countries and regions where diverse forms of Chinese are widely used, for example, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, USA
  2. interviewing people in their community who speak Chinese, such as 妈妈的朋友, and finding out how the person learnt and used Chinese in their home country and in Australia, for example, ‘How did you learn to speak and write Chinese? Do you speak Chinese every day in Australia?’
  3. recognising characters used in specific cultural events (for example, in various forms of New Year decoration, such as paper cut-outs, folk art, couplets), and identifying how the form might change, for example, asking why is sometimes presented upside dow
Code
VCZHU030
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