Advanced Hindi t course

Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia

In the Australian Curriculum: Languages, the cross–curriculum priority of Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia enables the development of rich and engaging content and contexts for developing students’ capabilities to engage with the languages and cultures of Asia and of people of Asian heritage within Australia.

The Australian Curriculum: Languages enables students to learn the languages of the Asian region, learning to communicate and interact in inter-culturally appropriate ways, exploring concepts, experiences, and perspectives from within and across Asian cultures.

In the Languages learning area, students develop an appreciation for the place of Australia within the Asian region, including the interconnections of languages and cultures, peoples and communities, histories and economies. Students learn how Australia is situated within the Asian region, how our national linguistic and cultural identity is continuously evolving both locally, regionally and within an international context.

Sustainability

In the Australian Curriculum: Languages, the priority of sustainability provides a context for developing students’ capability to communicate ideas, understanding, and perspectives on issues and concepts related to the environment.

The Australian Curriculum: Languages contributes to students’ capabilities to investigate, analyse, and communicate concepts and understandings related to sustainability in broad contexts, and to advocate, generate and evaluate actions for sustainable futures. Within each language, students engage with a range of texts focused on concepts related to sustainability.

These include:

the environment

conservation

social and political change

linguistic and cultural ecologies

change, both within the target language and culture, and across languages and cultures in general.

In this way, students develop knowledge, skills, and understanding about sustainability within particular cultural contexts. This is crucial in the context of national and international concerns about, for example, climate change, food shortages, and alternative ways of caring for land and agriculture. Through developing a capability to interact with others, negotiating meaning and mutual understanding respectfully and reflecting on communication, students learn to live and work in ways that are both productive and sustainable.

Learning Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages contributes to the global effort to exchange knowledge among people with varied practices in caring for the land. It also contributes to the reconciliation process in Australia and goals for language revival.

Representation of General Capabilities

	Evidence could be in:
Student Capabilities	Goals	Content	Teaching and Learning	Assessment
literacy				
numeracy				
information and communication technology (ICT) capability				
critical and creative thinking				
personal and social capability				
ethical behaviour				
intercultural understanding				
collaborative team members				

Unit Grades

Grade descriptors provide a guide for teacher judgement of students’ achievement, based on the assessment criteria, over a unit of work in this subject. Grades are organized on an A-E basis and represent standards of achievement.

Grades are awarded on the proviso that the assessment requirements have been met. When allocating grades, teachers will consider the degree to which students demonstrate their ability to complete and submit tasks within a specified time frame.

The following descriptors are consistent with the system grade descriptors, which describe generic standards of student achievement across all courses.

Unit Grade Descriptors for Advanced T Courses – Year 12
	A student who achieves an A grade typically	A student who achieves a B grade typically	A student who achieves a C grade typically	A student who achieves a D grade typically	A student who achieves an E grade typically
Understanding	critically analyses particular linguistic, cultural and stylistic features of authentic texts	analyses particular linguistic, cultural and stylistic features of authentic texts	explains some linguistic, cultural and stylistic features of authentic texts	describes linguistic, cultural and stylistic features of authentic texts	identifies some linguistic, cultural and stylistic features of authentic texts
	evaluates language and culture in a wide range of authentic and unfamiliar contexts	analyses language and culture in range of authentic and unfamiliar contexts	explains language and culture in a range of authentic and unfamiliar contexts	describes some language and culture in authentic and unfamiliar contexts	identifies some features of language and culture in authentic and unfamiliar contexts
	analyses and synthesises complex interconnections between own values, beliefs, practices, and ideas represented or expressed in authentic and/ or extended texts	explains and compares and contrasts complex interconnections between own values, beliefs, practices, and ideas represented or expressed in authentic and/ or extended texts	explains interconnections between own values, beliefs, practices, and ideas represented or expressed in authentic and/ or extended texts	describes interconnections between own beliefs, practices, and ideas represented or expressed in authentic and/ or extended texts	identifies some interconnections between own beliefs, practices, and ideas represented or expressed in authentic and/ or extended texts
	evaluates concepts and perspectives represented in a range of texts from literature and the media	analyses concepts and perspectives represented in texts from literature and the media	explains concepts and perspectives represented in texts from literature and the media	describes concepts and perspectives represented in texts from literature and the media	identifies concepts and perspectives represented in texts from literature and the media
Communicating	creates insightful texts displaying independence, depth and breadth in the treatment of the topic, substantiates decisions and constructs conclusions	creates complex texts displaying breadth and some depth and independence in the treatment of the topic and constructs conclusions	creates texts displaying breadth in the treatment of the topic and constructs conclusions	creates texts displaying some breadth in the treatment of the topic and constructs conclusions	creates texts displaying some knowledge of the topic
	displays clear and thorough knowledge and understanding of the target language as a system and responds with a high degree of confidence and sensitivity	displays thorough knowledge and understanding of the target language as a system and responds appropriately and with a good degree of confidence and sensitivity	displays knowledge and understanding of the target language as a system and responds with confidence and sensitivity	displays knowledge of the target language and responds with some confidence and/ or sensitivity	displays little or no confidence and/ or sensitivity in responses to knowledge of the target language
	applies to a high degree conventions of texts and takes risks to represent ideas and experiences appropriate to audience and purpose	applies conventions of texts and takes some risks to represent ideas and experiences appropriate to audience and purpose	applies conventions of texts to represent experiences appropriate to audience and purpose	applies some conventions of texts to represent experiences appropriate to audience and purpose	applies few conventions of texts to represent experiences appropriate to audience and purpose
	displays versatility and accurate language use, clarity of expression and a wide range of vocabulary and grammar both orally and in writing	displays a degree of versatility and accurate language use and a wide range of vocabulary and grammar both orally and in writing	displays some versatility and accurate language use and a range of vocabulary and grammar both orally and in writing	displays a range of vocabulary and uses grammar with some accuracy both orally and in writing in a sustained text	displays a range of vocabulary and uses grammar with limited accuracy both orally and in writing in disjointed texts

Unit Grade Descriptors for Advanced T Courses – Year 11
	A student who achieves an A grade typically	A student who achieves a B grade typically	A student who achieves a C grade typically	A student who achieves a D grade typically	A student who achieves an E grade typically
Understanding	analyses particular linguistic, cultural and stylistic features of authentic texts	explains some linguistic, cultural and stylistic features of authentic texts	describes linguistic, cultural and stylistic features of authentic texts	identifies some linguistic, cultural and stylistic features of authentic texts	identifies some linguistic, and cultural features of authentic texts
	analyses language and culture in range of authentic and unfamiliar contexts	explains language and culture in a range of authentic and unfamiliar contexts	describes some language and culture in authentic and unfamiliar contexts	identifies some features of language and culture in authentic and unfamiliar contexts	identifies few or no features of language and culture in authentic and unfamiliar contexts
	explains or compares and contrasts complex interconnections between own values, beliefs, practices, and ideas represented or expressed in authentic and/ or extended texts	explains interconnections between own values, beliefs, practices, and ideas represented or expressed in authentic and/ or extended texts	describes interconnections between own beliefs, practices, and ideas represented or expressed in authentic and/ or extended texts	identifies some interconnections between own beliefs, practices, and ideas represented or expressed in authentic and/ or extended texts	identifies few or no interconnections between own beliefs, practices, and ideas represented or expressed in authentic and/ or extended texts
	analyses concepts and perspectives represented in texts from literature and the media	explains concepts and perspectives represented in texts from literature and the media	describes concepts and perspectives represented in texts from literature and the media	identifies some concepts and perspectives represented in texts from literature and the media	identifies few or no concepts and perspectives represented in texts from literature and the media
Communicating	creates texts displaying independence, depth and breadth in the treatment of the topic, substantiates decisions and constructs conclusions	creates complex texts displaying breadth and some depth and independence in the treatment of the topic and constructs conclusions	creates texts displaying breadth in the treatment of the topic and constructs conclusions	creates texts displaying some breadth in the treatment of the topic and constructs conclusions	creates texts displaying some knowledge of the topic
	displays thorough knowledge and understanding of the target language as a system and responds with sustained confidence and sensitivity	displays thorough knowledge and understanding of the target language as a system and responds with examples of sustained confidence and sensitivity	displays knowledge and understanding of the target language as a system and responds with occasional confidence and sensitivity	displays knowledge of the target language; however lacks confidence and/ or sensitivity in responses	displays little or no confidence or sensitivity in responses to knowledge of the target language
	applies to a high degree conventions of texts and takes risks to represent ideas and experiences appropriate to audience and purpose	applies conventions of texts and takes some risks to represent ideas and experiences appropriate to audience and purpose	applies conventions of texts to represent experiences appropriate to audience and purpose	applies some conventions of texts to represent experiences appropriate to audience and purpose	applies few conventions of texts to represent experiences appropriate to audience and purpose.
	displays versatility and accurate language use, clarity of expression and a wide range of vocabulary and grammar both orally and in writing	displays a degree of versatility and accurate language use and a wide range of vocabulary and grammar both orally and in writing	displays some versatility and accurate language use and a range of vocabulary and grammar both orally and in writing	displays a range of vocabulary and uses grammar with some accuracy both orally and in writing in a sustained text	displays a range of vocabulary and uses grammar with limited accuracy both orally and in writing in disjointed texts