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Australian Languages — Additional Language Stage 2
Subject outline

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

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

teachers to clarify for students what they need to learn
teachers and assessors to 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 and assessors look for as evidence that students have met the learning requirements.

For this subject the assessment design criteria are:

The specific features are as follows:

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

The specific features are as follows:

AA1	Knowledge, understanding, and application of [Additional Language] systems and structures.
AA2	Analysis of meanings and language features.
AA3	Analysis and response to resources that are in [Additional Language].
AA4	Understanding of the relationship between language, culture, identity, and communities.