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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.
For teaching in 2024. Accredited in August 2019 for teaching at Stage 2 from 2020.
Stage 1 | Subject outline | Content | Additional language community
[Additional Language] community
In the focus area of [Additional Language] community, students explore and engage with [Additional Language] to develop an understanding of community life, protocols, stories, and histories. Students develop an understanding of the interdependence of language, identity, and community. They may focus their study on, for example:
- Aboriginal family and kinship connections
- connection between [Additional Language] and Country
- personal identifiers (e.g. skin groups, moieties, totems)
- family histories
- naming protocols
- music and art of the community
- community projects and/or programs
- significant events, celebrations, and ceremonies in the life of the community
- Australian Languages ecology.