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=The Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Languages= Recently the Australian Curiculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) released The Shape of the Australian Curriculum: Languages.

This is the final document that you may have contributed to during the draft consultation phase earlier this year. This paper is designed to guide the development of languages curriculum by ACARA and other organisations.

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 * Background: history, challenge and and apportunity
 * Rationale for learning languages
 * Languages as a learning area in the Austrlian Curriculum
 * Language, culture and learning
 * Language learners
 * Design of the Australian curriculum Languages
 * Describing the Australian Curriculum: Languages
 * Further considerations in the Australian Curriculum: Languages

The document can be downloaded from the ACARA website at: [|www.acara.edu.au]