Stage 1 | Subject outline | Version control

Australian Languages — Revival Language Stage 1
Subject outline

Version 4.0
Version 2.0 for teaching in 2024. Accredited in August 2019 for teaching at Stage 1 from 2020. 

Stage 1 | Subject outline | Capabilities | Intercultural understanding

Intercultural understanding

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

  • extending their understanding that revival and revitalisation of [Revival Language] is of great importance to both Aboriginal and non‑Aboriginal Australians, and contributes to national identity
  • contributing to the reconciliation processes through increased linguistic and intercultural competence
  • extending their understanding of relationships between Australian Languages, cultures, and identities in a national and global context
  • extending their understanding of how cultural concepts and practices affect ways in which people see the world, interact, and communicate with others
  • considering and reflecting on their own view of the world in context, as one of many
  • responding with empathy to what the relationship between language and identity means for individuals and communities
  • extending their understanding of the intrinsic relationship between language, culture, Country, and spirituality
  • noticing, comparing, and reflecting on assumptions, values, and ways of knowing.