The 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. A national consultation was conducted in 2021 on the CCAFL Framework (2021) and the feedback was very positive. The Framework was then finalised and approved by jurisdictions in October 2021. The Framework will provide the common national structure and content for CCAFL language studies at this level in each jurisdiction.
Language-specific materials are then added to the Framework, so that a student in any state where the language is offered has a common understanding of the language expectations in coursework and in the end-of-year examinations. These language-specific materials are currently in development with input from language and teaching experts from around the country.
Once the Framework and language-specific materials are finalised, each jurisdiction develops its own study design, syllabus or course for accreditation based on the common materials. In Victoria, this will result in new VCE Study Designs for all the CCAFL languages offered in the VCE.
After receiving accreditation, the new VCE Study Designs will be introduced at Year 11 in 2024 and Year 12 in 2025.
More information will be provided as the CCAFL Framework Renewal Project progresses.
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