Languages Faculty
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T: Telephone02 4951 1811
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In NSW high schools, languages is a key learning area.
Language study allows students to develop communication skills, learn about languages as systems and explore the relationship between language and culture. Students engage with the linguistic and cultural diversity of societies and reflect on their understanding of social interactions.
The study of a language is compulsory for 100 hours in one continuous school year from Year 7 to Year 10, but preferably in Years 7 or 8.
In Years 11 and 12, NSW schools offer a wide variety of languages, catering for beginning students to background speakers.
Quite often as language teachers, we are asked why students should have to do a language at all.
More information can be found on the NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) website.
Students must study at least 100 hours in one language, to be completed over one continuous 12-month period. When students have completed the mandatory 100 hours of language study, they may continue the study of that language as an elective for the School Certificate and/or choose to study another language.
A language course provides students with the opportunity to gain effective skills in communicating in the chosen language, to explore the relationships between languages and English, and to develop an understanding of the cultures associated with the chosen language.
What will students learn about in the study of a modern language?
What will students learn to do in the study of a modern language?
The study of Japanese provides students with opportunities for continued learning and for future employment, both domestically and internationally, in many areas such as commerce, tourism, hospitality and international relations.
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