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 | 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, connections, Country 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
  • 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
  • imagining future communities
  • Australian Languages ecology.