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 5
- AL5-RLC-01
explains the interrelationship between language, culture and identity
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.
Explain how and why language use varies according to social and cultural contexts, relationships and purposes
Research the phenomenon of language change in the target language community
Explain how and why language use varies according to social and cultural contexts, relationships and purposes
Reflect on the reciprocal relationship between language, culture and communication, and how this relationship reflects values and beliefs
Reflect on the interrelationship between language, culture and identity, and explain how this shapes ways of thinking and communicating
Reflect on intercultural experiences as a learner of the target language, recognising how cultural identity influences ways of communicating, thinking and behaving
Reflect on how cultural identity both influences and is shaped by ways of communicating, thinking and behaving
Reflect on how cultural identity both influences and is shaped by ways of thinking, communicating and behaving