K–10Aboriginal Languages K–10 Syllabus
The new Aboriginal Languages K–10 (2022) syllabus is to be implemented from 2024.
2024 – Start teaching new syllabus for:
- Schools with a K–6 program
- Mandatory 100 hours of a Language in Years 7–10
Students who commenced the 100-hour or 200-hour elective course in 2023 may continue to study the Aboriginal Languages K–10 Syllabus (2003) in 2024.
School sectors are responsible for implementing syllabuses and are best placed to provide schools with specific guidance and information on implementation given their understanding of their individual contexts.
Content
Stage 4
- AL4-RLC-01
identifies how language use reflects cultural ideas, values and beliefs
Content is provided for:
- Additional: Language Revival – students learning the target language as an additional language
- Prior: Language Revival – students with significant prior learning and/or experience in the target language
- First: students continuing to learn their First Language as the target language.
Understand how language use varies according to context and relationship between participants
Explore connections between language and culture in particular words, expressions and communicative behaviours
Discuss variations in target language use that reflect a range of social and cultural contexts, purposes and relationships
Explain ways in which choices in language use reflect cultural ideas, and explore communicative behaviours across cultures
Reflect on how language use varies according to social and cultural contexts, relationships and purposes
Explore connections between language and culture in particular words, expressions and communicative behaviours
Reflect on how their own biography, including family/cultural origins, beliefs and practices, affects their sense of identity and ways of communicating
Reflect on the relationship between language, culture and identity, and how this shapes ways of communicating and thinking