Languages
Curriculum development process for the national languages curriculum
Languages position paper
ACARA identified key issues to be resolved prior to the writing of the Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Languages. Some of the key issues included, defining an appropriate rationale for learning languages, the shaping of the languages area, and the design of the curriculum.
In developing a position paper for the languages curriculum to address these key issues, ACARA has been assisted by a reference group, which included academics, school leaders, teachers, members of professional associations and curriculum experts. View the composition of the reference group [insert link].
Languages initial advice paper
View the composition of the reference group.
Languages initial advice paper
ACARA appointed Associate Professor Angela Scarino as the lead writer for the development of the Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Languages. Together with an advisory group, Professor Scarino will draft an initial Advice Paper, which will be available for targeted consultation at a national forum, around August 2010.
Following feedback from the national forum, the initial advice paper will be revised and published as the draft Shape Paper for languages, for public consultation in late 2010.
Feedback collected during the consultation period will further inform the revision of the draft shape paper before it is published as the Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Languages. This paper will be used to guide the writing of the curriculum for languages.
View Associate Professor Scarino's short biography.
View the composition of the languages advisory group.
Selection of languages for the Australian Curriculum
Current discussions informing the initial advice paper include acknowledgement of the many languages that are spoken and taught in Australia. Policy decisions about specific languages, and how the Australian Curriculum will address them, is yet to be made. Those decisions will take into account the feedback received during the national forum and the public consultation period that follows.
As with any other learning areas, courses or subjects not covered under national curriculum development, languages that are not included within the Australian Curriculum will continue to be offered under existing state and territory arrangements.
