Stage 2 | Subject outline | Version control

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.

Stage 2 | Subject outline | Capabilities | Intercultural understanding

Intercultural understanding

In this subject students extend and apply their intercultural understanding capability by, for example:

  • appreciating and understanding the diversity and importance of cultural expressions, including language, literature, painting, music, performance, and oral traditions
  • respecting and understanding cultural protocols, including intellectual and cultural property rights
  • contributing to the reconciliation processes through increased linguistic and intercultural competence
  • appreciating that the long‑term maintenance of [Additional Language] is of great importance and contributes to the national identity of all Australians
  • understanding the importance of ecological understanding for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
  • reflecting on how others make meaning from what they say and how they make meaning from what others say.