Heritage Chinese – Performance band descriptions

The typical performance in this band:

Band 6

manipulates Chinese authentically and effectively to communicate a range of ideas and opinions relevant to context, purpose and audience
demonstrates the ability to reflect critically on and apply knowledge and understanding of the relationships between language, culture and identity in a bilingual context
demonstrates the ability to formulate a convincing argument to substantiate a point of view
structures and sequences ideas and information effectively and coherently
demonstrates the ability to summarise and synthesise information from texts and provide detailed and insightful analysis

manipulates Chinese effectively to communicate a range of ideas and opinions relevant to context, purpose and audience
demonstrates an ability to reflect on and apply knowledge and understanding of the relationships between language, culture and identity in a bilingual context
demonstrates the ability to justify a point of view consistently
organises and expresses ideas and information clearly
demonstrates the ability to summarise and synthesise information from texts and provide detailed analysis with some insight and interpretation

uses Chinese with a degree of accuracy to communicate ideas and opinions relevant to context, purpose and audience
demonstrates awareness of and ability to apply some knowledge and understanding of the relationships between language, culture and identity in a bilingual context
provides some supporting information to justify a point of view
organises and sequences most ideas and information reasonably
demonstrates the ability to extract and synthesise most relevant information in detail from texts with some analysis and interpretation

communicates ideas and opinions in comprehensible Chinese with some reference to context, purpose and audience
demonstrates some awareness of the relationships between language, culture and identity in a bilingual context
demonstrates some ability to express and support a point of view
provides some evidence of the ability to link ideas
demonstrates the ability to extract and summarise some relevant information from texts with limited analysis and interpretation

expresses some ideas and opinions in comprehensible Chinese
demonstrates some awareness of the relationships between language, culture and identity in a bilingual context
demonstrates the ability to extract some relevant information from texts