Students use formulaic phrases to participate in classroom routines, presentations and structured conversations with the teacher and peers. Students develop oral language through scaffolded tasks and texts such as songs, descriptions and stories. They extend their oral fluency by focusing on sentence...
Level description | Languages | Roman Alphabet Languages | F–10 Sequence
Students use the language in a range of classroom interactions and experiences. They read and listen to texts, and apply modelled language in creating their own texts, such as scripts, messages and stories. Learners draw on their literacy in their first language and their understanding of features...
Level description | Languages | Roman Alphabet Languages | 7–10 Sequence
By the end of Level 8, students use spoken and written Vietnamese to initiate and sustain interactions with peers, teachers, family members and other known adults, and to engage in transactions and exchange ideas and experiences. They ask and respond to open-ended questions such as Bạn nghĩ...
Level description | Languages | Vietnamese | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8
VCASFU052 | Languages | Auslan | First Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6 | Understanding | Language variation and change
VCASFU178 | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6 | Understanding | Language variation and change
VCASFU106 | Languages | Auslan | First Language Learner | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Understanding | Language variation and change
VCJAU178 | Languages | Japanese | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Understanding | Language variation and change
VCTRU099 | Languages | Turkish | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8 | Understanding | Systems of language
VCTRU118 | Languages | Turkish | 7–10 Sequence | Levels 9 and 10 | Understanding | Language variation and change
By the end of Level 2, students interact with teachers and each other to talk about themselves, their families, friends and immediate environment. They follow instructions to complete action-based activities such as signing games or transactional activities, using repeated constructions, gestures...
Level description | Languages | Auslan | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2
By the end of Level 6, students use spoken and written Chinese to initiate and maintain interactions. They describe and give information about themselves and their preferences, their environment, experiences and interests, for example, 我很喜欢唱歌。我的学校很漂亮。我觉得澳大利亚是很好的国家. They use simple questions (for example,
Level description | Languages | Chinese | Second Language Learner | F–10 Sequence | Levels 5 and 6
By the end of Level 2, students interact with teachers and peers through action-related talk and play. They introduce themselves, exchange greetings and farewells, for example, Ich heiße … Auf Wiedersehen! and express likes and dislikes. When interacting, they use short formulaic...
Level description | Languages | German | F–10 Sequence | Foundation to Level 2
Students expand their understanding of Hindi grammatical forms and features, including the function of tenses to express actions or events in the past, present or future, जाता था, जाता हूँ, जाऊँगा, and of the passive voice to convey the distinction between actions happening and being caused to...
Level description | Languages | Hindi | F–10 Sequence
By the end of Level 8, students use spoken and written Italian to interact in a range of personal and social contexts. They describe or present people, places, events or conditions; discuss likes, dislikes and preferences; present information; recount and narrate events; and talk about personal...
Level description | Languages | Italian | F–10 Sequence | Levels 7 and 8
Students become more fluent and accurate in spoken and written language production. They gain greater control of grammatical and textual elements. They use expressive and descriptive language as appropriate for different purposes and demonstrate understanding of language variation and change....
Level description | Languages | Japanese | 7–10 Sequence
Students become familiar with the sounds of Korean and approximate pronunciation of Korean syllables in words and short phrases, noting meaningful sounds in Korean and their differences from English sounds. They are introduced to Hangeul, recognising its alphabetical nature and different shapes...
Level description | Languages | Korean | 7–10 Sequence
Students acquire communication skills in a Victorian Aboriginal Language. They develop an understanding about the role of language and culture in communication. Their reflections on language use and language learning are applied to other learning contexts.
Learning languages broadens students...
Overview material | Victorian Aboriginal Languages
Students communicate with greater fluency, and use their knowledge of grammar and orthographic systems, such as understanding of primary tenses and declensions, to self-correct more readily. They investigate texts through more critical analysis, identifying how language choices reflect perspectives...
Level description | Languages | Modern Greek | F–10 Sequence
Students recognise and approximate the pronunciation, rhythms and intonation patterns of more extended phrases and compound sentences. They become more fluent and accurate in both spoken and written language production. They gain more control of grammatical and textual elements. They use simple...
Level description | Languages | Spanish | 7–10 Sequence
Students become familiar with the sounds of Spanish, including pronunciation, rhythm, pitch and stress. They recognise similarities with many English words, noting differences in pronunciation and spelling. They understand and apply elements of Spanish grammar such as word order; simple verb forms...
Level description | Languages | Spanish | 7–10 Sequence
