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-UND-01
analyses and responds to information, ideas and perspectives in a range of texts to demonstrate understanding
Listen to, read and view information, ideas and perspectives in moderately complex texts on a range of themes
Use comprehension strategies to interpret and analyse information, ideas and perspectives in texts
Respond to texts critically and creatively in the target language and/or English by interpreting and analysing information, ideas and perspectives
Demonstrate understanding of the context, purpose and audience in texts
Use knowledge of a wide range of features of the sound system to understand texts
Use knowledge of a wide range of sound–symbol correspondences to understand and respond to texts
Use knowledge of vocabulary from a wide range of themes to understand and respond to texts
Use knowledge of and manipulate a range of structures and features of the grammatical system to understand and respond to texts
Use knowledge of a range of structures and features of the target language writing system to understand and respond to texts
Use metalanguage to reflect on and evaluate target language structures and features in texts
Respond to texts by reflecting on how identity is shaped by language(s), culture(s), practices, values and perspectives
Respond to texts by reflecting on the relationship between language and culture in communication