Reproduced from VCAA Bulletin VCE, VCAL and VET No 102, February 2013, page 7
Armenian, Bosnian, Croatian, Dutch, Filipino, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Khmer, Macedonian, Maltese, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Yiddish
The VCAA participates with other curriculum and assessment authorities across Australia in the delivery and assessment of many languages through the Collaborative Curriculum and Assessment Framework for Languages (CCAFL) Project. This enables the provision of language courses at Year 11 and Year 12 that may otherwise not be possible because of small candidature. In 2012, the CCAFL National Reference Group made a series of minor alterations to the CCAFL study designs, effective from 2013. These alterations mostly relate to the end-of-year written examination but also relate to text types and kinds of writing. The following table summarises the changes.
Summary of changes
| Specifications in 2012 | Specifications in 2013 |
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| The written examination is three hours including reading time | The written examination is two hours and 30 minutes plus 10 minutes of reading time |
| Prescribed text types as listed in the Text Type section of VCE Study Designs for Languages. | - Text types for receptive use is no longer prescribed.
- Prescribed text types for productive use in the external examination are: article, blog, diary/journal entry, email, letter (formal or informal), text of an interview, message, note, report, review, script of a play, script of a speech or talk, and story.
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- Written Examination Section 1 (Listening and Responding) has five to seven texts.
- Part A has three to four texts, responding in English, weighting of 20%.
- Part B has one short text followed by one longer text, responding in the language, weighting of 10%.
| Written Examination Section 1 (Listening and Responding) has six texts. - Part A has three texts (including at least one shorter and one longer text), responding in English, weighting of 15%.
- Part B has three texts (including at least one shorter and one longer text), responding in the language, weighting of 15%.
- The total listening time is 16 minutes for two readings of each text.
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Written Examination Section 2 (Reading and Responding) - Part B: Students are required to read a short text of approximately 150 words and write a response of 150 to 200 words.
- Part B: The student will be required to produce a text type drawn from those in the Text Type section of the VCE Study Designs.
- Part A: responding in English, weighting of 20%.
- Part B: responding in the language, weighting of 10%
| Written Examination Section 2 (Reading and Responding) - Part B: Students are required to read a short text of approximately 150 words. Students will be expected to write a response of approximately 150 words.
- Part B: The student will be required to produce a text type drawn from those prescribed for productive use. If two related texts are used, they must be presented as one text with two parts in the examination.
- Part A: responding in English, weighting of 10%.
- Part B: responding in the language, weighting of 15%.
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Written Examination Section 3 (Writing) - Students are expected to produce a response of 200 to 250 words.
- Students are given opportunities to produce different kinds of writing (e.g. informative, imaginative, persuasive).
- Weighting of 15%.
| Written Examination Section 3 (Writing) - Students are expected to produce a response of approximately 250 words.
- Students are provided with the opportunity to produce different types of writing such as informative, imaginative, persuasive, personal, evaluative, reflective, narrative or descriptive either individually or in combination.
- Weighting of 20%.
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