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Chinese / Foundation to Year 2 / Understanding / Systems of language
Curriculum content descriptions
Recognise that characters are the written representation of spoken Chinese and the morphological nature of Chinese words (ACLCHU123)
Elaborations
- discussing the range of strokes and the construction of characters, and applying this understanding to differentiate between similar character forms, such as 日(sun) and 目(eye)
- copying characters with attention to the location, direction and order of strokes
- learning the sound and meaning of commonly seen basic characters (独体字) and components (部件), such as 木 (tree) and 人 (person), and making connections between basic characters and their bound forms (非成字), such as 水 and 氵
- identifying components and their various forms in different locations within characters, for example, 人 、 从 、 合; 心 、 情 、 思
- learning that Chinese words are made up of two or more characters, with each character contributing meaning to the word, for example, 大人 (literally ‘big person’) means ‘adult’
- recognising key morphemes in word groups, for example, 白天、白雪、小白兔
- identifying meanings of each syllable such as in xuéshēng, xuéxiào of Chinese words encountered
General capabilities
ScOT terms
Morphemes, Chinese languages, Chinese characters