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Chinese / Year 9 and 10 / Communicating / Reflecting

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Curriculum content descriptions

Reflect on how conventions of speech and particular Chinese cultural concepts can influence communication style when using both Chinese and English

[Key concepts: face, public, private; Key processes: adjusting, analysing]

Elaborations

differentiating language when engaging with participants from different cultural backgrounds, for example, opening a speech in Chinese with 中国有一句俗语… when in English they would open a speech with a joke
describing appropriate ways to engage with others in different contexts, for example, ‘I socialise with my friends who speak Chinese in … ways, but I socialise with my friends who speak English in … ways’

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Language conventions, Chinese languages

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