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The Australian Language Certificates Registrations will open in March for the 2004 Australian Language Certificates (ALC) program, which celebrates and encourages the learning of Languages Other Than English (LOTE) in schools. The program is an initiative of the Australian Multicultural Foundation, which has provided financial support for the Certificates over the past thirteen years. It is administered and funded by ACER. A key aim of the program is to motivate students to continue learning a language by providing them with recognition of their achievements. The program operates at three levels: First Certificate (currently only offered in Japanese), Beginners' Certificate and Intermediate Certificate. The Beginners' certificate is for students with 80-200 hours of language instruction. For the Intermediate level, students should have received between 200 and 300 hours of language instruction, and are likely to be in their third or fourth year of language study. The materials are based on 'best practice' in language assessment as well as on the experience of practising teachers. They are specifically designed for students in upper primary and secondary school language programs. The materials aim to cater for students of varying ability levels whilst ensuring that all participants are both challenged and rewarded. For Beginners' and Intermediate tasks, a number of questions are presented in the target language. This is done for two reasons. Firstly, to ensure that there are some challenging tasks for students and secondly, to provide a model for teachers in designing their own assessment tasks. Participating schools retain all materials. Participating students receive a personalised certificate, which provides a description of the level of achievement in both listening and reading. Registrations for the 2004 Australian Language Certificates program will open in March with tests taking place as follows: 3 August: Japanese First 4 August: Beginners' - Japanese, Indonesian, Italian, French, German 5 August: Intermediate - Japanese, Italian, French, German To register or obtain further information, visit the ALC web site or email the ACL office at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) « Back to eNews
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Registrations will open in March for the 2004 Australian Language Certificates (ALC) program, which celebrates and encourages the learning of Languages Other Than English (LOTE) in schools. The program is an initiative of the Australian Multicultural Foundation, which has provided financial support for the Certificates over the past thirteen years. It is administered and funded by ACER. A key aim of the program is to motivate students to continue learning a language by providing them with recognition of their achievements.

The program operates at three levels: First Certificate (currently only offered in Japanese), Beginners' Certificate and Intermediate Certificate. The Beginners' certificate is for students with 80-200 hours of language instruction. For the Intermediate level, students should have received between 200 and 300 hours of language instruction, and are likely to be in their third or fourth year of language study.

The materials are based on 'best practice' in language assessment as well as on the experience of practising teachers. They are specifically designed for students in upper primary and secondary school language programs. The materials aim to cater for students of varying ability levels whilst ensuring that all participants are both challenged and rewarded. For Beginners' and Intermediate tasks, a number of questions are presented in the target language. This is done for two reasons. Firstly, to ensure that there are some challenging tasks for students and secondly, to provide a model for teachers in designing their own assessment tasks. Participating schools retain all materials.

Participating students receive a personalised certificate, which provides a description of the level of achievement in both listening and reading.

Registrations for the 2004 Australian Language Certificates program will open in March with tests taking place as follows:

3 August: Japanese First

4 August: Beginners' - Japanese, Indonesian, Italian, French, German

5 August: Intermediate - Japanese, Italian, French, German

To register or obtain further information, visit the ALC web site or email the ACL office at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

The Australian Language Certificates