13 July 2018
Notice 041/18
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 that stipulates the romaji phonetic system cannot be used for assessment responses.
Amendments have been made to the table of characters.
Summative internal assessment 1 (IA1): Examination — short response
The specifications of the assessment have been amended as follows:
- the duration of the assessment is now 75–85 minutes plus 5 minutes planning
- students are to respond to stimulus of 1200–1700 characters in total.
Summative internal assessment 2 (IA2): Examination — combination response
The specifications of the assessment have been amended as follows:
- the duration of Session 1 is now 90–100 minutes plus 5 minutes planning
- students are to respond to stimulus of 1200–1700 characters in total
- the extended response is defined as a response of 300–400 characters.
Summative external assessment (EA): Examination — combination response
The examination requirements have been clarified to specify:
- three to six unseen Japanese 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 800–1200 characters in total.
In the Creating Japanese texts criterion, the specifications have been clarified to state: ‘Students respond in Japanese to unseen questions, stimulus, scenarios, problems and/or Japanese stimulus’.
The conditions have also been further defined. Short answer responses in English are now 300–400 words in total. The total response in Japanese is now 550–750 characters.
Glossary
Glossary definitions for tone and visual text have been amended to further clarify these terms.
The Japanese General Senior Syllabus 2019 (v1.3) 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
