Content description ACLCHU171

Years 7 and 8 / Understanding / Systems of language / ACLCHU171

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Use character and component knowledge to infer sound and meaning of new characters encountered in texts, and examine component form and function to associate the correct sound and meaning with individual characters

Elaborations

using knowledge of components to select a character from options when inputting Chinese in a digital text
categorising words containing a common morpheme to better understand the relationship between morphemes and specific word meanings, for example, using Chinese dictionaries to explore the range of words created from common character morphemes such as 情 (情感、情趣、情形) and 性（性能、性别、性格）
discriminating between the functions of morphemes with related meanings, for example, 餐，饭; 做，作
exploring influences on word formation, for example, the school subject ‘Language’ is called 语文 in China not 汉语 or 中文

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Chinese languages

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