Languages

In Languages K-6 students learn to recognise the importance of language in shaping and defining culture and identity.

Students develop:

• knowledge, understandings, skills, attitudes and values that enhance their sense of personal, community, national and global identity;
• positive values and attitudes about language;
• recognition of the cultural identity of speakers of a language other than English;
• skills in communicating in a language other than English;
• sociocultural understandings and knowledge of language as a system.

By implementing this subject schools are able to:

• develop and implement language acquisition programs, and
• develop and implement programs to develop and extend the linguistic potential of background speaker students.

A syllabus is a document that gives teachers an outline of what students are to be taught in a specific learning area.

The syllabus and other supporting material for Languages (Other Than English) K-6 is available from the Board of Studies.