Australian curriculum: Standard Chinese is a series of textbooks and workbooks developed for Australian school aged children based upon the latest version of Australian Curriculum: Chinese (https://v9.australiancurriculum.edu.au) and International Curriculum for Chinese Language Education (Hanban). It has a foundation level and five Stages covering ten years of schooling from Year 1 to Year 10.

The books are organised into two sets of textbooks and workbooks for each Stage or two years, covering eight major themes of communication and language uses.

Each set of books contains four units of six lessons, totalling 24 lessons. They are designed to build up student’s knowledge, understanding and capability in the language and culture. The expected outcomes are to be realised in the learning activities in each lesson.

Within each lesson, a carefully selected theme text is presented. This is the key material for the lesson as it contains all aspects of the learning in the lesson. It is then broken down to small size of tasks for students to learn and practice. Through this process students learn the key concepts and processes and different aspects of the language and culture, as defined in the Australian Curriculum.

The theme based content and capability focused approach is best realised in a variety of communicative and engaging activities offered through this program. It also contributes to other areas of learning, e.g. history and geography, ICT, critical and creative thinking, and intercultural understanding.

This program and series are fully aligned with T Course (Continuing).