Chinese: Second Language Learner F–10 Sequence / Levels 9 and 10 / Understanding / Language variation and change
Content description
Explain how language defines people’s roles as outsiders or insiders in groups and cultures
Elaborations
experimenting with internet language to communicate with peers in a class blog and recognising the value of technology in exploring and constructing own texts
considering how they can be more inclusive in their own language use, for example: What questions can I ask to understand others better? What words are best to be avoided? How can I express my opinion without causing offence?
examining the use of inclusive language and how ideas are framed, for example, the impact of positive versus negative framing on how meaning is interpreted across languages and cultures, such as 足下留情，小草常青 versus ‘Keep off the grass’
exploring the contexts and implications of terms used to identify others, for example, 老外、 华侨、 华裔、 大陆人、 华人、 中国人、 少数民族
