Navigation Menu

Contact

askSACE

1300 322 920
askSACE@sa.gov.au
print Print

Stage 1 | Subject outline | Version control

Australian Languages — Additional Language Stage 1
Subject outline

Version 4.0
For teaching in 2024. Accredited in August 2019 for teaching at Stage 2 from 2020. 

Stage 1 | Subject outline | Assessment design criteria

Assessment design criteria

The assessment design criteria are based on the learning requirements and are used by teachers to:

  • clarify for students what they need to learn
  • design opportunities for students to provide evidence of their learning at the highest possible level of achievement.

The assessment design criteria consist of specific features that:

  • students should demonstrate in their learning
  • teachers look for as evidence that students have met the learning requirements.

For this subject the assessment design criteria are:

  • communicating
  • awareness and exploration.

The specific features of these criteria are described below.

The set of assessments, as a whole, must give students opportunities to demonstrate each of the specific features by the completion of study of the subject.

Communicating

The specific features are as follows:

C1 Language and expression (vocabulary, grammar, textual knowledge).
C2 Exchange of information and/or experiences.
C3 Creation of resources to express information, experiences, ideas, and/or opinions.

Awareness and Exploration

The specific features are as follows:

AE1 Understanding and application of [Additional Language] systems and structures.
AE2 Exploration and understanding of language features.
AE3 Responding to resources that are in [Additional Language].
AE4 Exploration and understanding of the relationship between language, culture, and communities.