Progression Point Examples in LOTE
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 | Pathway 2 | Downloads
Pathway 1
For students who begin learning a language in primary school and continue to study the same language to Year 10.
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.
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).
Ω
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)
- LOTE Character languages Pathway 2 (PDF - 179KB)
- LOTE Character languages Pathway 2 (Doc - 169KB)
- LOTE Non-Roman alphabetical languages Pathway 2 (PDF - 275KB)
- LOTE Non-Roman alphabetical languages Pathway 2 (Doc - 177KB)
- LOTE Roman alphabetical languages Pathway 2 (PDF - 165KB)
- LOTE Roman alphabetical languages Pathway 2 (Doc - 179KB)
- LOTE Sign language Pathway 2 (PDF - 234KB)
- LOTE Sign language Pathway 2 (Doc - 210KB)
