LOTE Pathway 1
Standards and Progression Points
Introduction
The LOTE domain is organised into two pathways, the first consisting of six levels and the second of two levels. Each level includes a learning focus statement and, from Level 4 onwards, a set of standards organised by dimension.
The LOTE progression points have been developed to correspond with these pathways.
Pathway 1: for students who begin learning a language in primary school and continue to study the same language to Year 10.
Pathway 2: for students who begin learning a language in Year 7.
Language categories
For the purposes of organising the learning demands on students, languages can be broadly grouped into four categories.
Roman alphabetical languages – languages whose writing system, or means of being visually recorded, is Roman alphabetic, and whose reading demands on learners are similar to those of English (examples include: Australian Indigenous languages, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Spanish, Vietnamese).
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Non-Roman alphabetical languages – languages whose writing system is alphabetic but non-Roman, and for which a learner needs to acquire a new alphabet (examples include: Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Russian).
Character languages – languages whose writing system is either syllabic, ideographic, or a combination of syllables and ideograms, involving different reading processes from alphabet reading, and the learning of the new script (examples include: Chinese, Japanese).
Sign language – Australian Sign Language, or Auslan. For most learners this will also involve reading in English.
Downloads
- LOTE Character languages Pathway 1 (PDF - 239KB)
- LOTE Character languages Pathway 1 (DOC - 188KB)
- LOTE Non-Roman alphabetical languages Pathway 1 (PDF - 314KB)
- LOTE Non-Roman alphabetical languages Pathway 1 (DOC - 194KB)
- LOTE Roman alphabetical languages Pathway 1 (PDF - 192KB)
- LOTE Roman alphabetical languages Pathway 1 (DOC - 196KB)
- LOTE Sign language Pathway 1 (PDF - 309KB)
- LOTE Sign language Pathway 1 (DOC - 239KB)
