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Guiding principles Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages

Appropriate consultations with relevant Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander communities are always central to the development of language-specific curricula and the provision of language learning programs in schools. The following guiding principles …

Guiding principles | Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages | Languages | F-10 curriculum

Rationale Specialist Mathematics

Rationale Mathematics is the study of order, relation and pattern. From its origins in counting and measuring it has evolved in highly sophisticated and elegant ways to become the language now used to describe much of the modern world. Statistics is concerned …

Rationale | Specialist Mathematics | Mathematics | Senior secondary curriculum

Achievement Standard Spanish Years 5 and 6

By the end of Year 6, students use written and spoken Spanish for classroom interactions, to carry out transactions and to share information about personal interests, relate experiences and express feelings. They use modelled sentence structures …

Achievement Standard Turkish Years 9 and 10

By the end of Year 10, students interact in written and spoken Turkish to exchange and compare views and experiences on personal, local and global issues, for example, liseyi bitirince Türkiye’de üniversiteye gitmek istiyorum, okulu bitirdikten …

Structure

The Australian Curriculum: The Arts covers each of the five arts subjects – Dance, Drama, Media Arts, Music, and Visual Arts – across bands of year levels: Foundation to Year 2 Years 3 and 4 Years 5 and 6 Years 7 and 8 Years 9 and 10. The curriculum …

Structure | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Foundation to Year 2 Chinese

The nature of the learners Children enter the early years of schooling with established oracy skills in one or more languages and varying degrees of early literacy capability. For young students, learning typically focuses on their immediate world of …

Years 5 and 6 Chinese

The nature of the learners At this level students are expanding their social networks, experiences and communication repertoire in both their first language and Chinese. They continue to need guidance and participate in structured, collaborative tasks …

Years 7 and 8 Chinese

The nature of the learners Students are beginning their study of Chinese and typically have had little prior exposure to the language and associated cultures. Many will have learnt an additional language in primary school, some have proficiency in different …

Years 3 to 6 Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages

The nature of the learner, the pathway and particular language The Language Revival Learner Pathway (LR) provides opportunities for students to study Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander languages being revived by their owners or custodians and which …

CrT6

Crafting ideas writes for a range of purposes (to recount a personal experience, to observe and describe, to provide a reason why, to express thoughts and feelings about a topic) writes four or more sequenced and clearly connected ideas includes …

Years 7 and 8 Turkish

The nature of the learners The transition to secondary schooling involves social and academic demands that coincide with a period of maturational and physical change. Learners are adjusting to a new school culture with sharper divisions between curriculum …

Years 7 and 8 | Years F–10 Sequence | Turkish | Languages | F-10 curriculum

Years 9 and 10 Turkish

The nature of the learners This stage of learning coincides with social, physical and cognitive changes associated with adolescence. Increased cognitive maturity enables learners to work more deductively with language and culture systems, to apply more …

Years 9 and 10 | Years 7–10 (Year 7 Entry) Sequence | Turkish | Languages | F-10 curriculum

Using the Framework Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages

The Framework is general in its structure and approach because it needs to be applicable to all Aboriginal languages and Torres Strait Islander languages in Australia, across the full range of language ecologies. As a consequence, curriculum content and …

Using the Framework | Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages | Languages | F-10 curriculum

Structure Framework for Classical Languages

Sequences of learning To reflect current custom, practice and the needs of learners in Australian schools, the Framework has been developed for Years 7–10. Strands, sub-strands and threads The following interrelated strands are derived from the …

Structure | Framework for Classical Languages | Languages | F-10 curriculum

Context statement French

The place of the French language and culture in Australia and in the world French is a major world language, spoken as the first language in more than two dozen countries on five continents and as an official language in 33 countries. First …

Context statement | French | Languages | F-10 curriculum

Language table English as an Additional Language or Dialect

Key language skills for EAL/D The key language skills described below provide a focus for language instruction in any unit at students’ point of need and should be taught in context and if relevant. Students should be given the opportunity to develop …

Language table | English as an Additional Language or Dialect | English | Senior secondary curriculum

Achievement Standard Chinese Years 5 and 6

By the end of Year 6, students use spoken and written Chinese to maintain interactions with familiar and unfamiliar people across a growing range of situations (for example, 你星期几去汉语学校？,你说…对吗？); to convey information, opinions and experiences (for …

Achievement Standard Italian Years 9 and 10

By the end of Year 10, students use a range of everyday language both orally and in writing to exchange information about their personal, social and local world and about broader issues of personal significance. They communicate thoughts and opinions; …

ACLARU118

Recognise that Australia has speakers of many different languages, including Arabic, and that languages borrow words from one another[Key concepts: place, word-borrowing; Key processes: noticing, selecting]

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ACLARC127

Translate and interpret words, expressions and sentences in simple English and Arabic texts, noticing similarities and differences or non-equivalence[Key concepts: meaning, translation; Key processes: moving between languages, comparing]