Acknowledgement This work is being funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations under the School Languages Program. Heritage Chinese Draft Course of Study at Senior Secondary Level October 2009 C O L L A B O R A T I V E C U R R I C U L U M A N D A S S E S S M E N T F R A M E W O R K F O R L A N G U A G E S A U S T R A L I A © 2009 Board of Studies NSW for and on behalf of the Crown in right of the State of New South Wales, 2009. This document contains Material prepared by the Board of Studies NSW for and on behalf of the Australasian Curriculum, Assessment and Certification Authorities, in collaboration with the: Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority SACE Board of South Australia Queensland Studies Authority Curriculum Council of Western Australia Northern Territory Board of Studies Tasmanian Qualifications Authority New Zealand Qualifications Authority. All rights reserved. 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Contents 1 Background Information .................................................................................................. 4 1.1 Design of the Heritage Chinese Draft Course of Study at Senior Secondary Level ................................................................................................................... 5 1.2 Specific issues to be considered during consultation on the draft course of study ................................................................................................................... 5 1.3 The Development Process .................................................................................... 5 1.4 Timeline for the development of Heritage Languages Courses at Senior Secondary Level ................................................................................................... 6 1.5 Assisting Respondents .......................................................................................... 7 1.6 Consultation.......................................................................................................... 7 2 Structure of the Draft Course of Study ............................................................................ 8 3 Introduction to Heritage Chinese at the Senior Secondary Level.................................... 9 3.1 The Language ....................................................................................................... 9 3.2 Description of Target Group................................................................................. 9 4 Rationale ................................................................................................................. 10 5 Aims, Objectives and Outcomes.................................................................................... 12 5.1 Aims ................................................................................................................. 12 5.2 Objectives ........................................................................................................... 13 5.3 Outcomes ............................................................................................................ 14 6 Content ................................................................................................................. 15 6.1 Issues, Perspectives and Contexts....................................................................... 19 6.1.1 Issues ....................................................................................................... 19 6.1.2 Perspectives ............................................................................................ 20 6.1.3 Contexts................................................................................................... 20 6.2 Personal Investigation ........................................................................................ 21 6.3 Texts ................................................................................................................ 22 6.4 Tasks ................................................................................................................ 22 6.5 Characters ........................................................................................................... 23 6.6 Grammar ............................................................................................................. 23 7 Other considerations....................................................................................................... 28 7.1 The place of English ........................................................................................... 28 7.2 The role of digital technologies ......................................................................... 28 7.3 Dictionaries......................................................................................................... 29 8 Assessment ................................................................................................................. 30 8.1 School Assessment ............................................................................................. 30 8.2 External Examination ......................................................................................... 30 Attachment 1 Character List.................................................................................................... 33 Attachment 2 List of suggested resources ............................................................................... 37 Appendix 1 Continuum of Learning....................................................................................... 41 2 Assessment in Stage 6 (NSW)............................................................................ 42 Heritage Chinese Draft Course of Study at Senior Secondary Level 1 Background Information The project, Development of Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Indonesian and Korean Language Courses for Heritage Speakers at the Senior Secondary Level (Curriculum Framework and Courses of Study) was proposed by the Office of the Board of Studies NSW on behalf of the Australasian Curriculum Assessment and Certification Authorities (ACACA) in October 2008 and approved by the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) in December 2008. It is funded as a national project through the School Languages Program (SLP). The project is being led by the New South Wales Board of Studies in collaboration with the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority and the SACE Board of South Australia on behalf of ACACA, from its commencement in December 2008 until its completion in September 2010. The Curriculum Framework and Courses of Study will be developed as part of the Collaborative Curriculum and Assessment Framework for Languages (CCAFL) Project and in keeping with a national set of curriculum statements at the senior secondary level. The purpose of the project is to develop a national curriculum framework and courses of study in Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Indonesian and Korean for Heritage Speakers at the senior secondary level to cater for students whose language background and/or experiences make them ineligible for the Continuers course of study, but for whom the Background Speakers course is too advanced. It is anticipated that the provision of courses for Heritage language learners will encourage these students to study one of