Length: Semester or Full Year (students intending to study Stage 2 Indonesian Continuers must successfully complete a full year of Stage 1 Indonesian)

Recommended background: Satisfactory completion of Year 10 Indonesian

Content:

In Stage 1 Indonesian Continuers, students are expected to develop and apply linguistic and intercultural knowledge, understanding, and skills to:

• Interact with others to share information, ideas, opinions and experiences
• Create texts in Indonesian to express information, feelings, ideas and opinions
• Analyse texts to interpret meaning, and examine relationships between language, culture and identity, and reflect on the ways in which culture influences communication

There are three prescribed themes and a number of prescribed topics and suggested subtopics covered over the course of Stage 1 and Stage 2 Indonesian. The three prescribed themes are:

• The Individual
• The Indonesian speaking Communities
• The Changing World

Stage 1 Topics include:

• Personal Identity
• Education and Aspirations
• Values, Attitudes and Opinions
• Contemporary Issues
• Stories from the Past
• Visiting Indonesia

Assessment:

Students’ performance will be determined according to the subject’s Performance Standards as outlined in the Subject Outline. Grades A to E will be used for reporting purposes.

The following assessment types enable students to demonstrate their learning in Stage 1 locally assessed languages at continuers level:

• Assessment Type 1: Interaction
• Assessment Type 2: Text Production
• Assessment Type 3: Text Analysis
• Assessment Type 4: Investigation

Each assessment type should have a weighting of at least 20%.