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Chinese / Year 9 and 10 / Understanding / Systems of language

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Identify and explain how Chinese orthography enables access to technical and unusual vocabulary, including specialised abstract nouns, and a wider range of texts, using orthographic knowledge to identify characters related to topics studied in other learning areas, such as chemical elements (periodic table) and mathematical terms (ACLCHU256)

Elaborations

experimenting with the use of abstract nouns such as 物种、深春、微风 to create procedural texts
developing skills to comprehend simplified or traditional Chinese characters in print media and online texts
discriminating correct forms and sounds of 多音字 (polyphonic characters) such as 行 (háng 同行 and xíng 行进), and appreciating multiple forms of 通假字 such as 反 - 返; 说 - 悦

General capabilities

Literacy
Critical and creative thinking

ScOT terms

Language conventions, Nouns, Chinese languages

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