Listening, reading, speaking and writing strategies, and the text types the course requires.
These are the statements the Chinese Continuers syllabus makes about Language Skills and Text Types. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Extracting gist and detail from spoken texts, and using context to recover unknown vocabulary.
Reading for main idea, detail and inference, and answering in a form that matches the question.
Sustaining a conversation: initiating, responding, repairing a breakdown and negotiating meaning.
Producing email, letter, notice and other text types with appropriate structure and register. Characters carry meaning and often several readings, so romanisation is a support rather than a substitute; handwriting must show correct stroke order and proportion.
The structures that carry meaning in extended writing, and the errors that most interfere with comprehension.
Building vocabulary in context, and learning which words habitually occur together rather than in isolation.
HSC Chinese Continuers - Written Paper Shape is 100 marks in 150 minutes. Questions on Language Skills and Text Types are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Chinese Continuers uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Language Skills and Text Types is module 4 of 4 in Chinese Continuers. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Chinese Continuers dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.