Student diversity
ACARA is committed to the development of a high-quality curriculum that promotes excellence and equity in education for all Australian students. All students are entitled to rigorous, relevant and engaging learning programs drawn from the Australian Curriculum: …
Student diversity | Languages | F-10 curriculum
General capabilities
In the Australian Curriculum, general capabilities encompass knowledge, skills, behaviours, and dispositions that, together with curriculum content in each learning area and the cross-curriculum priorities, will enable students to live and work successfully …
General capabilities | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Cross-curriculum priorities
The Australian Curriculum gives special attention to three cross-curriculum priorities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures Asia and Australia’s engagement with Asia sustainability. The cross-curriculum priorities are embedded …
Cross-curriculum priorities | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Rationale
Through learning languages, students acquire: communication skills in the language being learnt an intercultural capability, and an understanding of the role of language and culture in communication a capability for reflection on language use and language …
Rationale | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Context statement Arabic
The place of the Arabic culture and language in Australia and in the world Arabic is spoken by approximately 280 million people in 22 countries over two continents. It is the official language of the Arab world, which includes countries of the Middle …
Context statement | Arabic | Languages | F-10 curriculum
PDF documents Arabic
Resources and support materials for the Australian Curriculum: Languages - Arabic are available as PDF documents. Languages - Arabic: Sequence of content Languages - Arabic: Sequence of Achievement - F-10 Sequence Languages - Arabic: Sequence of Achievement …
PDF documents | Arabic | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Aims Auslan
The Australian Curriculum: Languages – Auslan aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to enable students to: communicate in Auslan understand language, culture and learning and their relationship, and thereby develop an intercultural …
Aims | Auslan | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Developing teaching and learning Auslan
Sequences of learning The Australian Curriculum: Languages – Auslan has two learning sequences: one from Foundation to Year 10, and another from Year 7 to Year 10 (Year 7 Entry). The curriculum is written in a series of bands, as follows: Foundation …
Developing teaching and learning | Auslan | Languages | F-10 curriculum
PDF documents Auslan
Resources and support materials for the Australian Curriculum: Languages – Auslan are available as PDF documents. Languages - Auslan: Auslan glossing conventions and principles Languages - Auslan: Auslan Glossary
PDF documents | Auslan | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Context statement Chinese
The place of the Chinese language and culture in Australia and the world China's official language is Modern Standard Chinese, or Putonghua (the common or shared language) in Chinese. The language is also referred to as Hanyu, the spoken …
Context statement | Chinese | Languages | F-10 curriculum
PDF documents Chinese
Resources and support materials for the Australian Curriculum: Languages - Chinese are available as PDF documents. Languages - Chinese: Sequence of content Languages - Chinese: Sequence of Achievement - Background Language Learner Pathway - F-10 Sequence Languages …
PDF documents | Chinese | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Aims Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages
The Australian Curriculum: Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills necessary to ensure that students: communicate in the language understand language, culture, and …
Aims | Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages | Languages | F-10 curriculum
What is the Framework? Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages
The Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages (the Framework) is the first national curriculum document Foundation to Year 10 to provide a way forward for all schools in Australia to support the teaching and learning of the …
What is the Framework? | Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages | 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
PDF documents Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages
Resources and support materials for the Australian Curriculum: Languages - Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages are available as PDF documents. Scope and Sequence Sequence of Achievement - First Language Learner Pathway …
PDF documents | Framework for Aboriginal Languages and Torres Strait Islander Languages | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Nature and purpose of the Framework Framework for Classical Languages
Classical languages are distinct within the languages learning area of the Australian Curriculum. While they have ceased to be languages of everyday communication, Classical languages provide a key to the literature, history, thought and culture of the …
Nature and purpose of the Framework | Framework for Classical Languages | Languages | F-10 curriculum
Aims Framework for Classical Languages
The Australian Curriculum: Framework for Classical Languages aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to ensure students: engage with the language, history and culture of the Classical world through interaction with texts understand language, …
Aims | Framework for Classical 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
PDF documents Framework for Classical Languages
Resources and support materials for the Australian Curriculum: Languages – Classical are available as PDF documents. Framework of Classical Languages - Classical glossary
PDF documents | 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