Collaborative Curriculum and Assessment Framework for Languages

The Collaborative Curriculum and Assessment Framework for Languages (CCAFL) Project is a long running national collaborative curriculum and assessment model that supports the national provision of high quality languages education at the senior secondary level. It does this by sharing responsibility for the provision of small candidature languages and monitoring the implementation and effectiveness of the project on an ongoing basis.

The CCAFL Project provides a common framework for syllabus development and external assessment across languages, which ensures high quality language studies and the ongoing national provision of languages that might otherwise be unsustainable due to small candidatures.

The CCAFL Framework for Continuers Level Languages was reviewed throughout 2019 – 2021 by Australian jurisdictions that participate in the CCAFL Project. The revised CCAFL Framework approved by jurisdictions in October 2021 providese the common national structure and content for all CCAFL language studies at this level in each jurisdiction.

Language-specific materials added to the Framework, so that students in any state where the language is offered haves a common understanding of the language expectations in coursework and in the end-of-year examinations.

Each jurisdiction develops its own study design, syllabus or course for accreditation based on the common materials. In Victoria, new VCE Study Designs for all the CCAFL languages offered in the VCE were developed using the revised CCAFL Framework and accredited for implementation from 2024 (Units 1 and 2) and 2025 (Units 3 and 4).

Accreditation of new VCE Languages

Download the VCAA policy on accreditation of new VCE Languages

For information about Languages in the VCE contact:

Kylie Witt 
Manager - Languages Unit 
tel: + 61 3 9059 5120 
Kylie.Witt@education.vic.gov.au