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Framework for Classical Languages

INTRODUCTIONCURRICULUMSCOPE AND SEQUENCERESOURCES

Introduction

Rationale and Aims
Structure
Learning in [Classical Language]
The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority has developed a Framework for Classical Languages. This framework supports Victorian schools to offer programs in Classical languages for which there is no language-specific curriculum available in the Victorian Curriculum F–10 Version 2.0.

Information provided in the square brackets can be customised for the target language. The elaborations are generic in nature. This enables teachers to select or adapt the elaborations that are relevant for the target language.

Rationale and Aims

Rationale

[The rationale establishes why the Classical language is a valuable and important area of learning. It includes the Classical language’s distinctiveness and how students will benefit from its study.]

Classical languages are languages of the ancient world with an independent literary tradition.

[Classical Language] has been taught in Victoria since [Year]. [Insert the history of teaching and learning in Victoria.] By accessing and translating texts and engaging with artefacts, students make connections with ancient worlds that have shaped contemporary life and societies. Learning [Classical Language] enhances students’ understanding and knowledge of [insert significance of the Classical language to English and/or other languages]. This knowledge promotes understanding of diverse languages, cultures, attitudes, beliefs, values and traditions.

Aims

The 3 interrelated aims of the [Classical Language] curriculum are to develop knowledge, understanding and skills to ensure students:

  • engage with the language, history and culture of the [Country/City] world through interaction with texts
  • understand language, culture and learning and their relationship, through the medium of [Classical Language] texts and artefacts, and thereby develop intercultural understanding
  • understand how their own experience of learning [Classical Language] extends their ways of viewing, engaging in and interpreting the contemporary world.