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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. 

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.