Chinese: Second Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 5 and 6 / Understanding / Systems of language
Content description
Notice how the features of text organisation vary according to audience and purpose
Elaborations
describing the major features of familiar text types in Chinese, and experimenting with analysing Chinese texts, for example, recognising the ‘problem’ and the ‘resolution’ in a narrative
identifying the purpose and intended audience and context (for example, digital, online or face to face) of a range of familiar texts
exploring features and conventions of Chinese text, including lack of word spacing or use of punctuation, and variability in text direction, and comparing texts in traditional characters with texts in simplified characters
understanding the use of Chinese-specific punctuation, such as double quotation marks to signal a quote
