Level 3 Chinese Heritage Language
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Ms M. Lin.
In Year 13 Chinese Heritage Language, you consolidate your abilities using practical, transactional language to communicate information and ideas and further develop your skills using more abstract language to express and justify your opinions and explore and challenge others’ perspectives. The main idea at this level is World Matters.
Topics include:
- Cultural awareness & integration
- Environment & eco-tourism
- Modern technology & cyber world
- Chinese traditional beliefs & living philosophies
Recommended Prior Learning
This course is for students with prior first language experience to consolidate their prior learning; further develop and gain credit for their proficiency. This course is recommended for students who have had more than 5 years of experience in a Chinese-medium school (all the subjects are taught in Chinese in the school).
Pathway
Here's a few of many Chinese career opportunities that await you!!
Research analyst (someone can help companies to make better business decisions for their Asian/Chinese speaking markets), global marketing specialist, government agent (with more than 300,000 Chinese migrants in NZ, our government needs you), Chinese teacher, ESOL teacher (you can teach both in non-English speaking countries as well as in English speaking countries), translator, interpreter, cultural promoter. Mandarin Chinese is a great language to learn that will open the doors to a world of opportunities.
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is eligible for subject endorsement.
This course is approved for University Entrance.
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NZQA Info
Chinese 3.1 - Demonstrate understanding of a variety of extended spoken Chinese texts
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Chinese 3.3 - Interact clearly using spoken Chinese to explore and justify varied ideas and perspectives in different situations
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Chinese 3.4 - Demonstrate understanding of a variety of extended written and/or visual Chinese texts
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Chinese 3.5 - Write a variety of text types in clear Chinese to explore and justify varied ideas and perspectives
Approved subject for University Entrance
Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 21
Only students engaged in learning and achievement derived from Te Marautanga o Aotearoa are eligible to be awarded these subjects as part of the requirement for 14 credits in each of three subjects.
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Disclaimer
We aim to enable every student to have the course that they prefer, however, some courses have limited places or pre-requisits that may restrict the student's choice.