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 | Australia and the wider world

Australia and the wider world

The focus area of Australia and the wider world enables students to engage with the broader context of Australian Languages and cultures. Students develop an understanding of language change and consider ways to support [Additional Language]. Students may focus their study on:

  • [Additional Language] history and status
  • bringing [Additional Language] knowledge to the wider world
  • connections and collaboration between [Additional Language] communities and other communities
  • reconciliation
  • impact of national and international matters on [Additional Language] communities
  • supporting [Additional language] understanding with Australians and the wider world
  • imagining future worlds.