ACLCHC072
Elaborations
- producing bilingual displays about Chinese language, culture or contemporary society to share learning and knowledge with the whole school community, for example, a poster display on Chinese characters, on earthquake-prone areas such as Sichuan, on youth cultures in China, or on the Chinese community in Australia
- creating own texts in Chinese and exploring how word choices impact on the subtlety or accuracy of intended meaning
- considering ways of exemplifying ideas to ensure effective mediation of ideas or information as opposed to word for word translation, for example, 谢谢您！— 不谢！(‘Thank you!’ — ‘You’re welcome!’)
- using alternative ways of expressing meanings when communicating complex ideas, for example, 一个孩子 for 独生子女
- using print and online dictionaries to expand their own linguistic repertoire and convey subtle meanings when creating own texts, understanding the risks of word-for-word translation