K–10Modern Languages K–10 Syllabus
The new Modern Languages K–10 Syllabus (2022) is to be implemented from 2024.
2024 – Start teaching new syllabus for:
- Schools with a K–6 language program
- Mandatory 100 hours of a Language in Years 7–10
Students who commenced a 100-hour or 200-hour elective course in 2023 may continue to study that course 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
- ML5-INT-01
exchanges information, ideas and perspectives in a range of contexts by manipulating culturally appropriate language
Interacting in a language is primarily done through oral language. Where students use other forms of communication to supplement or replace speech, the content should be taught using the student’s preferred communication form(s).
Socialise with peers to build and maintain relationships
Make arrangements with peers
Understand and reciprocate detailed information about their own and others’ personal worlds
Express and compare emotions and personal preferences
Ask questions, make requests and explain actions
Discuss and justify opinions, ideas and perspectives
Use and adapt a range of communication strategies to facilitate and sustain interactions in a range of contexts
Use a wide range of features of the sound system in spoken interactions
Adjust and adapt vocabulary from a wide range of themes to interact
Control and manipulate a range of structures and features of the grammatical system to interact
Adjust and adapt language that is appropriate to cultural practices, values and perspectives to interact