13 July 2018
Notice 040/18
Amendments have been made to the Chinese General Senior Syllabus 2019.
Subject matter
A statement has been added to ‘Characters’ in the mandatory language elements to highlight that students should be able to create and read text in a range of formats and that the Hànyû pînyîn phonetic system cannot be used for assessment responses.
Summative internal assessment 1 (IA1): Examination — short response
The conditions have been amended. The duration of this assessment is now 75–85 minutes plus 5 minutes planning.
Summative internal assessment 2 (IA2): Examination — combination response
The conditions have been amended. The duration of Session 1 is now 90–100 minutes plus 5 minutes planning.
Summative external assessment (EA): Examination — combination response
The examination requirements have been clarified to specify:
- three to six unseen Chinese stimulus texts
- at least one written and one audio/audiovisual text
- stimulus texts need to be authentic and related to Unit 4 subject matter
- the combined length of the stimulus texts is to be no more than 600–1000 characters in total.
In the Creating Chinese texts criterion, the specifications have been clarified to state: ‘Students respond in Chinese to unseen questions, scenarios, problems and/or Chinese stimulus’.
The conditions have also been further defined. Short answer responses in English are now 300–400 words in total. The total response in Chinese is now 400–600 characters.
Glossary
Glossary definitions for tone and visual text have been amended to further clarify these terms.
The Chinese General Senior Syllabus 2019 (v1.4) and associated resources are available in the QCAA Portal. The syllabus is also available on the QCAA website.
More information
Lisa Bottomley, Learning Area Manager (English and Languages)
Email: EnglishandLanguages@qcaa.qld.edu.au
Telephone: (07) 3120 6129
- Last reviewed:
- 25 July 2018
- Last updated:
- 13 July 2018
