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Page 1: Languages in Victorian government schools 2010 · Italian, Japanese, Indonesian, French, German, Chinese (Mandarin), Auslan and Greek were the most widely taught languages across

Languages in Victorian government schools 2010

Page 2: Languages in Victorian government schools 2010 · Italian, Japanese, Indonesian, French, German, Chinese (Mandarin), Auslan and Greek were the most widely taught languages across

Published by

Languages Unit

Student Learning Division

Office for Government School Education

Department of Education and Early Childhood

Development

Melbourne

June 2011

© State of Victoria (Department of Education

and Early Childhood Development) 2011

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Preface

In 2010, the Victorian Government continued its strong commitment to supporting and extending

the teaching of Languages in Victorian government primary schools and secondary colleges. The

data in this publication is based on responses from primary schools and secondary colleges to a

web-based Languages survey conducted between August and October 2010. The data provides a

comprehensive picture of the provision of Languages education at that time in Victoria.

The provision of Languages education is a matter of careful planning and coordination between the

various providers including mainstream government primary schools and secondary colleges, the

Victorian School of Languages (VSL) and community languages schools. This report focuses on

the provision of Languages programs through mainstream government primary schools and

secondary colleges and the VSL. Programs conducted outside regular school hours by Community

Languages Schools (CLS) have not been analysed in this report, although students who study a

language to the VCE level through a CLS are included in The study of Languages at the VCE

level section.

Twenty one languages were taught in government primary schools in 2010, 17 in secondary

colleges and 45 through the VSL, representing 50 languages in total. In government primary

schools and secondary colleges, there was a total of 299,571 enrolments in Languages, with a

further 15,908 primary and secondary level enrolments in the VSL. The Distance Education Section

of the VSL provided courses in ten languages and accounted for 17.1% of secondary level

enrolments at the VSL.

Italian, Japanese, Indonesian, French, German, Chinese (Mandarin), Auslan and Greek were the

most widely taught languages across all government primary schools and secondary colleges.

However, at the VSL, community languages were of greater significance. The eight most widely

studied languages at the VSL were Chinese (Mandarin), Vietnamese, Japanese, Turkish, Greek,

French, Arabic and Italian. With 50 languages accessible through government primary schools and

secondary colleges and the VSL, the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development

(DEECD) hopes to maintain a breadth of high quality programs and Languages offerings in Victoria.

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List of Tables

Table 1.1 Total enrolments in Languages study, government primary schools and

secondary colleges, and the VSL, 2010. .............................................................................. 14

Table 1.2 Number of primary schools and secondary colleges by languages offered,

2010. .................................................................................................................................... 16

Table 1.3 Enrolment trends in Italian, 2005–2010. .............................................................................. 17

Table 1.4 Enrolment trends in Japanese, 2005–2010.......................................................................... 17

Table 1.5 Enrolment trends in Indonesian, 2005–2010. ...................................................................... 18

Table 1.6 Enrolment trends in French, 2005–2010. ............................................................................. 18

Table 1.7 Enrolment trends in German, 2005–2010. ........................................................................... 19

Table 1.8 Enrolment trends in Chinese (Mandarin), 2005–2010. ......................................................... 19

Table 1.9 Enrolment trends in Auslan, 2005–2010. ............................................................................. 20

Table 1.10 Enrolment trends in Greek, 2005–2010. .............................................................................. 20

Table 1.11 Enrolment trends in Spanish, 2005–2010. ........................................................................... 21

Table 1.12 Enrolment trends in Korean, 2005–2010. ............................................................................ 21

Table 1.13 Enrolment trends in Greek, 2005–2010. .............................................................................. 22

Table 1.14 Enrolment trends in Vietnamese, 2005–2010. ..................................................................... 22

Table 1.15 Enrolment trends in Arabic, 2005–2010. .............................................................................. 22

Table 1.16 Enrolment trends in Turkish, 2005–2010. ............................................................................ 22

Table 3.1 Number and percentage of primary schools with Languages programs by year

level, 2004–2010. ................................................................................................................. 29

Table 3.2 Number and percentage of primary schools offering each language, 2010. ........................ 30

Table 3.3 The number of primary students in Languages Programs by year level and as

a percentage of total student population, 2004–2010. ......................................................... 31

Table 3.4 Primary enrolments by language and year level, 2010. ....................................................... 34

Table 3.5 Primary enrolments by language and program type, 2010. ................................................. 38

Table 3.6 Enrolments in primary schools by method of provision and language, 2010. ...................... 38

Table 3.7 Enrolments by language and target group, 2010. ................................................................ 39

Table 3.8 Primary schools providing Languages programs by region, 2009 and 2010. ....................... 41

Table 3.9 Primary enrolments by language and region, 2010. ............................................................. 41

Table 4.1 Number and percentage of secondary colleges by language, 2010. ................................... 44

Table 4.2 Compulsory Languages study by year level (Years 7 to 10) (amongst those

offering a Languages program), 2007–2010. ....................................................................... 45

Table 4.3 Government secondary Languages student numbers by year level, 2007–

2010. .................................................................................................................................... 47

Table 4.4 Secondary enrolments by language and year level, 2010. .................................................. 48

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Table 4.5 Secondary enrolments as a percentage of all Languages enrolments,

selected languages, Year 7 and 12, 2010. ........................................................................... 50

Table 4.6 Secondary enrolments by gender and language, 2010. ....................................................... 52

Table 4.7 Student enrolments (government colleges) by language, students eligible to

graduate from VCE, 2008 -2010 (based on VCE unit 4 enrolments). .................................. 53

Table 4.8 Students eligible to graduate from VCE, 2010 (government colleges): Number

of students who completed a VCE Unit 4 Languages course by year Unit 4

was undertaken. ................................................................................................................... 54

Table 4.9 Year 11 and 12 enrolments at secondary colleges and the VSL, 2008–2010 ...................... 55

Table 4.10 Secondary Languages enrolments by language and program type, 2010. .......................... 57

Table 4.11 Secondary enrolments by language and target group, 2010. .............................................. 58

Table 4.12 Secondary Languages enrolments by metropolitan and regional areas by year

level, 2010............................................................................................................................ 59

Table 4.13 Secondary enrolments by region and language, 2010. ........................................................ 60

Table 5.1 Teachers by gender and language, 2010. ........................................................................... 62

Table 6.1 Designated bilingual programs, 2010. .................................................................................. 67

Table 7.1 VSL enrolments by language and year level, 2010. ............................................................ 70

Table 7.2 Primary level VSL enrolments by language, 2010. .............................................................. 74

Table 7.3 Secondary level VSL enrolments by language, all education sectors, 2010. ....................... 75

Table 7.4 Student enrolments in distance education by language and year level, 2010. ..................... 76

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List of Figures

Figure 1.1 Number and percentage of primary schools providing a Languages program,

2004–2010. .......................................................................................................................... 10

Figure 1.2 Number of primary schools offering the eight most widely studied languages,

2004–2010. .......................................................................................................................... 11

Figure 1.3 Number and percentage of secondary colleges providing a Languages

program, 2004–2010. ........................................................................................................... 12

Figure 1.4 Total enrolments in six most widely studied languages, 2004–2010. ................................... 15

Figure 3.1 Percentage of primary schools providing Languages programs by year level,

2004–2010. .......................................................................................................................... 28

Figure 3.2 Sequences of Languages programs in primary schools, 2010............................................. 29

Figure 3.3 The number of primary students in Languages Programs by year level, 2004–

2010. .................................................................................................................................... 31

Figure 3.4 Percentage of primary school students studying Languages, 2004–2010. .......................... 32

Figure 3.5 Primary enrolments for the six most studied languages, 2004–2010. .................................. 35

Figure 3.6 Primary level enrolments by language, 2010. ...................................................................... 35

Figure 3.7 Enrolments in primary Languages programs by minutes per week, 2009-2010................... 36

Figure 3.8 Average minutes of Languages study per week, 2004–2010. ............................................. 36

Figure 3.9 Primary Languages enrolments by program type, 2004–2010............................................. 37

Figure 3.10 Percentage of primary schools providing a Languages program by region,

2008–2010. .......................................................................................................................... 40

Figure 3.11 Primary Languages enrolments through ICT, 2004 – 2010. ................................................ 42

Figure 4.1 Percentage of secondary colleges providing Languages programs by year

level, 2004–2010. ................................................................................................................. 43

Figure 4.2 Sequences of Languages programs in secondary colleges, 2009–2010. ............................ 44

Figure 4.3 Percentage of secondary colleges (amongst those offering a language) where

a language is compulsory by year level, 2005–10. .............................................................. 45

Figure 4.4 Percentage of students studying a language by year level, 2004–2010. ............................. 46

Figure 4.5 Percentage of secondary college students studying a language, 2004–2010. .................... 47

Figure 4.6 Secondary Languages enrolments, 2010. ........................................................................... 49

Figure 4.7 Secondary enrolments, six most widely studied languages, 2004–2010. ........................... 49

Figure 4.8 Secondary Languages enrolments by gender and year level, 2010. ................................... 51

Figure 4.9 Languages enrolments at Years 11 and 12 by regional or metropolitan

regions, 2004–2010. ........................................................................................................... 55

Figure 4.10 Average minutes per week for languages programs by year level, 2004–2010. .................. 56

Figure 4.11 Secondary Languages enrolments by program type, 2004–2010. ....................................... 57

Figure 4.12 Secondary Languages student numbers in metropolitan and regional areas by

year level, 2010. ................................................................................................................... 59

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Figure 5.1 Primary school and secondary college Languages teachers, 2010. .................................... 61

Figure 5.2 Languages teachers by qualification level, 2010.................................................................. 63

Figure 5.3 Percentage of fully qualified teachers, primary and secondary levels, 2004–

2010. .................................................................................................................................... 64

Figure 5.4 Hours spent teaching Languages each week, primary and secondary levels,

2010. .................................................................................................................................... 65

Figure 7.1 Enrolments at the VSL, 2004–2010. .................................................................................... 68

Figure 7.2 Languages enrolments at the VSL, by sector, 2010. ........................................................... 72

Figure 7.3 Enrolments at the VSL by sector and language (eight most widely studied),

2010. .................................................................................................................................... 73

Figure 7.4 Enrolments at the VSL by sector and language (eight most widely studied),

Years 11 and 12, 2010. ........................................................................................................ 73

Figure 7.5 Student enrolments in distance education (six most studied languages),

2005–2010. .......................................................................................................................... 77

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Table of Contents Preface .................................................................................................................. 3

List of Tables ......................................................................................................... 4

List of Figures ........................................................................................................ 6

Table of Contents .................................................................................................. 8

Section 1: Overview of the Study of Languages in 2010 .......................................... 10

Trends in the Study of Languages....................................................................... 10

Primary Languages Programs ............................................................................. 10

Secondary Languages Programs ........................................................................ 12

Aggregate Figures for Enrolments in Languages Programs in 2010 ................... 14

Language Profiles ............................................................................................... 17

Trend Tables for Other Selected Languages. ..................................................... 17

Section 2: Summary of Findings ................................................................................. 23

Primary Schools .................................................................................................. 23

Secondary Colleges ............................................................................................ 25

Teachers of Languages ....................................................................................... 27

Victorian School of Languages ............................................................................ 27

Section 3: Primary Schools ......................................................................................... 28

Schools ............................................................................................................... 28

Students .............................................................................................................. 31

Languages Taught .............................................................................................. 33

Contact Time ....................................................................................................... 36

Program Types .................................................................................................... 37

Target Groups ..................................................................................................... 39

Regional Provision of Languages ........................................................................ 40

ICT ...................................................................................................................... 42

Section 4: Secondary Colleges ................................................................................... 43

Colleges .............................................................................................................. 43

Students .............................................................................................................. 46

Languages Taught .............................................................................................. 48

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Male/Female Enrolments .................................................................................... 51

Languages Study at the VCE Level ..................................................................... 53

Contact Time ....................................................................................................... 56

Program Types .................................................................................................... 57

Target Groups ..................................................................................................... 58

Regional Provision of Languages ........................................................................ 59

ICT ...................................................................................................................... 60

Section 5: Teachers of Languages in Victorian Government Schools and Colleges61

Section 6: Bilingual Programs in Victorian Government Schools and Colleges .... 66

Section 7: The Victorian School of Languages .......................................................... 68

Distance Education Section of the Victorian School of Languages ..................... 76

Section 8: Appendices ................................................................................................. 78

Appendix 1: Program Types and Target Groups ....................................................... 78

Appendix 2: List of Primary Schools by Languages, 2010 ....................................... 79

Appendix 3: List of Secondary Colleges by Languages, 2010 ................................. 90

Appendix 4: Primary Schools and Languages Offered, 2010 ................................... 96

Appendix 5: Secondary Colleges and Languages Offered, 2010 ........................... 115

Appendix 6: VSL Centres and Languages Offered, 2010 ........................................ 122

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10 Overview 2010: Trends

Section 1: Overview of the Study of Languages in 2010

Trends in the Study of Languages

The following trend analysis reviews Languages study at the primary and secondary levels in

Victorian government schools and colleges over the last seven years. It provides an informative

overview of the current state of Languages and highlights the differing patterns in the study of

Languages at the primary and secondary levels.

Primary Languages Programs

There was a continual decline in the number of government primary schools offering Languages

programs between 2004 and 2010 (Figure 1.1), along with a concomitant decline in student

enrolments. The number of schools offering a Languages program decreased by 23.4% between

2004 and 2010. This decline was consistent at all year levels, with the number of primary schools

offering a program at each year level decreasing around 20 percentage points between 2004 and

2010 (Figure 3.1).

Concurrently, the number of primary school students studying a language between 2004 and 2010

also declined from 85.6% to 66.8% (Figure 3.4). In student numbers, this represents a 23.2%

decrease in student enrolments between 2004 and 2010, from 266,900 to 205,015 enrolments in

2010. However, there was only a small decline in enrolments between 2009 and 2010, down 1.2%,

from 207,486 to 205,015 enrolments.

Figure 1.1 Number and percentage of primary schools providing a Languages program, 2004–2010.

The number of primary schools offering each language has fluctuated between 2004 and 2010,

with some languages faring better than others. As can be seen in Figure 1.2, the number of

primary schools offering Indonesian and Italian has continued to decrease over the last several

years. On the other hand, the number of primary schools offering Chinese (Mandarin) and Auslan

continued to grow between 2004 and 2010. Offerings of French, Greek and Japanese have

fluctuated but remained relatively stable between 2009 and 2010, while enrolments in German

remained stable between 2004 and 2006, but slowly declined between 2006 and 2010.

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Figure 1.2 Number of primary schools offering the eight most widely studied languages, 2004–2010.

The amount of time primary schools allocate to the study of Languages remains an ongoing issue

for the quality of Languages programs. The DEECD Curriculum Planning Guidelines recommend

that students receive 150 minutes of Languages study per week. In 2010, however, only 2.1% of

primary Languages programs ran for 150 minutes or more per week (Figure 3.7).

An interesting fluctuation can be seen in relation to program types beginning in 2007. Ideally

students study a language through a Languages program, which focuses on the acquisition of

language. Until 2007, there had been an increasing movement towards language and cultural

awareness programs. In these programs, students are introduced to some vocabulary and aspects

of society, language and culture. However, this trend reversed quite dramatically in 2007, with

provision of Languages programs increasing to 61.7% in 2008, declining to 55.4% in 2009 but

increasing again to 60.4% in 2010 (Figure 3.9).

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350

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Italian

Indonesian

Japanese

French

German

Chinese (Mandarin)Auslan

Greek

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12 Overview 2010: Trends

Secondary Languages Programs

Languages provision at the secondary level has remained relatively stable over the last four years,

although the percentage of secondary colleges offering Languages programs has not returned to

the 2004 high of 96.4% (Figure 1.3).

Figure 1.3 Number and percentage of secondary colleges providing a Languages program, 2004–2010.

Enrolments in secondary Languages programs consistently decreased between 2004 and 2010,

moving from 52.4% of students in 2004 to 41.1% of students (91,657 students) in 2010 (Figure

4.5). The largest decrease in enrolments for a number of years has been at the Years 9 and 10

levels, although the decline at the Year 9 level has been relatively stable between 2008 and 2010.

At the Year 10 level, the percentage of students studying a language declined from 21.3% to

14.1% between 2004 and 2010 (Figure 4.4).

However, the number of students attending government secondary colleges who complete a

Languages course by the time they complete Year 12 has increased substantially over the same

time period. This has been due to a number of variables, including the flexible nature of the

Victorian curriculum, which allows students to undertake and complete Languages courses prior to

enrolling in Year 12, the availability of Languages study outside of schools and colleges through

the VSL, including distance education and the availability of Languages study through community

languages schools. As a result, amongst the students who were eligible to graduate from

secondary schooling in 2010, 17.4% had completed a Languages course.

Another positive indicator in relation to Languages study has been the slow but steady increase in

the percentage of males studying a language through to the Year 12 level. While a roughly equal

number of males and females study languages at Years 7 to 9, the number of males studying

Languages drops dramatically from Year 10 onwards, with students who continue Languages

study through to Year 12 being predominantly female (62.8% in 2010). However, the percentage of

males enrolled in Year 12 who study a language has increased slowly in recent years and stood at

37.2% in 2010 (Figure 4.8) in comparison to 34.2% in 2004.

29896.4%

28491.3%

28992.9%

27288.3%

27389.2%

27587.6%

27286.6%

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2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

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When looking at enrolment changes for specific languages, the six most widely studied languages

in government secondary colleges have all experienced rising and falling enrolments between

2004 and 2010. Over this time period, enrolments in Indonesian, Italian, Japanese and German

have declined (Figure 4.7). French enrolments have fluctuated but remained strong over the same

time frame. Chinese (Mandarin) has continued to grow in popularity, with enrolments increasing

25.7% between 2004 and 2010. Overall, the six most widely studied languages at the secondary

level were French, Japanese, Italian, Indonesian, German and Chinese (Mandarin).

Trends in program type at the secondary level continue to move in a positive direction every year.

Languages programs that focus on the target language, rather than on a general language and

cultural experience, continue to form the majority of programs, up from 95.1% in 2004 to 97.7% in

2010. Only 2.3% of programs in secondary colleges are language and cultural awareness

programs (Table 4.10).

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14 Overview 2010: Summary tables and charts

Aggregate Figures for Enrolments in Languages Programs in 2010

Table 1.1 provides a summary of enrolments in government primary schools and secondary

colleges, including all enrolments at the VSL (including through distance education), for 2010. At

the secondary level, students studying more than one language through taster programs are

counted for each language they are enrolled in. Hence, this table represents student enrolments,

not the number of students studying a language.

Table 1.1 Total enrolments in Languages study, government primary schools and

secondary colleges, and the VSL, 2010.

Primary Primary

VSL Primary

total Second.

Second. VSL

Second. total

Total enrol.

%*

Italian 55,783 203 55,986 17,979 456 18,435 74,421 23.6

Japanese 43,183 70 43,253 18,115 853 18,968 62,221 19.7

Indonesian 39,049 2 39,051 16,637 369 17,006 56,057 17.8

French 18,969 118 19,087 19,731 656 20,387 39,474 12.5

German 13,987 54 14,041 11,816 430 12,246 26,287 8.3

Chinese (Mandarin)

14,292 1,314 15,606 5,424 1,430 6,854 22,460 7.1

Auslan 10,722 0 10,722 821 0 821 11,543 3.7

Greek 2,656 660 3,316 1,115 205 1,320 4,636 1.5

Spanish 2,260 185 2,445 1,327 379 1,706 4,151 1.3

Vietnamese 736 1,041 1,777 375 1,045 1,420 3,197 1.0

Arabic 764 391 1,155 370 358 728 1,883 0.6

Turkish 652 468 1,120 286 439 725 1,845 0.6

Karen 635 135 770 0 105 105 875 0.3

Macedonian 128 218 346 220 220 440 786 0.2

Korean 388 78 466 0 191 191 657 0.2

Sinhala 0 321 321 0 169 169 490 0.2

Punjabi 0 232 232 0 188 188 420 0.1

Dari 0 205 205 0 205 205 410 0.1

Latin 0 0 0 259 121 380 380 0.1

Croatian 0 180 180 0 169 169 349 0.1

Swahili 335 6 341 0 4 4 345 0.1

Hindi 0 152 152 0 136 136 288 0.1

Maori 232 0 232 23 0 23 255 0.1

Chin (Hakha) 0 120 120 0 97 97 217 0.1

Polish 0 35 35 0 181 181 216 0.1

Khmer 0 79 79 37 73 110 189 0.1

Bosnian 0 75 75 0 111 111 186 0.1

Persian 0 33 33 0 148 148 181 0.1

Aboriginal Languages

119 0 119 0 0 0 119 <0.1

Serbian 0 43 43 0 74 74 117 <0.1

Russian 0 40 40 0 54 54 94 <0.1

Portuguese 0 35 35 0 55 55 90 <0.1

Hebrew 0 53 53 0 37 37 90 <0.1

Dutch 35 14 49 0 31 31 80 <0.1

Afrikaans 62 0 62 0 0 0 62 <0.1

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Primary Primary

VSL Primary

total Second.

Second. VSL

Second. total

Total enrol.

%*

Filipino 0 8 8 0 47 47 55 <0.1

Maltese 0 36 36 0 14 14 50 <0.1

Thai 28 0 28 21 0 21 49 <0.1

Hungarian 0 13 13 0 25 25 38 <0.1

Albanian 0 22 22 0 16 16 38 <0.1

Dinka 0 21 21 0 14 14 35 <0.1

Pushto 0 17 17 0 10 10 27 <0.1

Syriac 0 15 15 0 5 5 20 <0.1

Romanian 0 1 1 0 17 17 18 <0.1

Bengali 0 13 13 0 5 5 18 <0.1

Chinese (Cantonese)

0 13 13 0 4 4 17 <0.1

Tigrinya 0 12 12 0 2 2 14 <0.1

Lithuanian 0 6 6 0 6 6 12 <0.1

Amharic 0 8 8 0 4 4 12 <0.1

Bulgarian 0 4 4 0 1 1 5 <0.1

Total 205,015 6,749 211,764 94,556 9,159 103,715 315,479 100.0

*As a percentage of Languages enrolments.

Figure 1.4, following, details trends in the six most studied languages between 2004 and 2010.

This figure includes enrolments at the primary and secondary levels, as well as all enrolments at

the VSL (including enrolments through distance education). The most noticeable trend in primary

schools and secondary colleges has been the decline of Indonesian, Italian and German, with

Indonesian moving from the second to the third most studied language in 2010. Enrolments in

French remained stable between 2004 and 2010. Enrolments in Japanese declined somewhat

from 2005 but stabilised in 2010, with enrolments actually increased slightly at the primary level.

Chinese (Mandarin) is the only language that has consistently grown in popularity, up 61.5%

between 2004 and 2010 (Figure 1.4).

Figure 1.4 Total enrolments in six most widely studied languages, 2004–2010.

Note that these enrolments include government primary school and secondary college students and students

studying through the VSL, including distance education.

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2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Indonesian

Italian

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16 Overview 2010: Summary tables and charts

Table 1.2 provides an outline of the number of Victorian government primary schools and

secondary colleges offering each language in 2010. While Indonesian is only the third most studied

language in terms of student enrolments, it is still taught at the largest number of primary schools

and secondary colleges across Victoria. Notable changes between 2009 and 2010 include the

decrease in the number of schools offering Italian (-20) and German (-13), while the number of

schools teaching Chinese (Mandarin) increased by 13 schools in 2010.

Table 1.2 Number of primary schools and secondary colleges by languages offered,

2010.

Primary schools Secondary colleges Total Change from 2009

(number of schools)

Indonesian 195 97 292 -11

Italian 209 73 282 -20

Japanese 179 90 269 -4

French 105 85 190 +2

German 68 62 130 -13

Chinese (Mandarin) 62 42 104 +13

Auslan 47 6 53 +5

Greek 15 12 27 +2

Spanish 14 4 18 -1

Vietnamese 7 7 14 -

Arabic 7 5 12 -1

Turkish 5 1 6 -2

Macedonian 2 3 5 -1

Maori 2 1 3 +1

Karen 2 0 2 -

Latin 0 2 2 -

Thai 1 1 2 +2

Aboriginal Languages 1 0 1 -4

Afrikaans 1 0 1 -

Dutch 1 0 1 +1

Khmer 0 1 1 -

Korean 1 0 1 -

Swahili 1 0 1 +1

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Language Profiles

Italian Italian was the most studied language in Victorian government schools in 2010, with 74,421

enrolments across government primary schools and secondary colleges and the Victorian School

of Languages (including enrolments through distance education) (Table 1.3). It was also the most

popular language at the primary level, offered in 24.7% of the primary schools with Languages

programs (or 17.1% of all primary schools). At the secondary level, it was the third most popular

language, offered at 26.8% of the secondary colleges with Languages programs (or 23.3% of all

secondary colleges). Italian was studied at 13 VSL centres (including through distance education)

in both regional and metropolitan areas. In 2010, 235 students eligible to graduate from secondary

college had completed Italian study through to Year 12. While Italian has the highest number of

enrolments in Victorian schools, enrolments in Italian decreased 23.3% between 2005 and 2010.

This decline was most notable at the primary level where enrolments fell 26%, although enrolments

at the secondary level also fell 15.7% over the same period.

Italian was taught by 349 teachers in 209 primary schools and 73 secondary colleges in 2010.

Table 1.3 Enrolment trends in Italian, 2005–2010.

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Primary schools 75,419 71,560 66,948 60,703 58,984 55,783

VSL primary 71 75 49 184 132 203

Secondary colleges 21,319 21,505 21,873 18,836 18,842 17,979

VSL secondary 235 212 209 522 481 456

Total 97,044 93,352 89,079 80,245 78,439 74,421

Japanese Japanese was the second most studied language in Victorian government schools in 2010, with

62,221 enrolments in government primary schools and secondary colleges, and the Victorian

School of Languages (including enrolments through distance education) (Table 1.4). It was the

second most studied language at the primary level, offered in 21.1% of the primary schools with

Languages programs (or 14.7% of all primary schools). At the secondary level, it was the second

most popular language, studied at 33.1% of the secondary colleges offering a Languages program

(or 28.7% of all secondary colleges). Japanese was studied at 10 VSL centres (including through

distance education) in both regional and metropolitan areas. In 2010, 530 students eligible to

graduate from secondary college had completed Japanese study through to Year 12. Enrolments

in Japanese decreased 18.6% between 2005 and 2010, but are beginning to show signs of

recovery with enrolments at the primary level increasing 3.3% between 2009 and 2010.

Japanese was taught by 321 teachers in 179 primary schools and 90 secondary colleges in 2010.

Table 1.4 Enrolment trends in Japanese, 2005–2010.

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Primary schools 55,654 48,347 46,193 45,395 41,798 43,183

VSL primary 25 21 32 57 55 70

Secondary colleges 20,392 20,127 18,862 20,147 19,050 18,115

VSL secondary 413 435 410 763 717 853

Total 76,484 68,930 65,497 66,362 61,620 62,221

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Indonesian Indonesian was the third most studied language in Victorian government schools in 2010, with

56,057 enrolments in government primary schools and secondary colleges and the Victorian

School of Languages (including enrolments through distance education) (Table 1.5). It was the

third most studied language at the primary level, offered in 23% of the primary schools with

Languages programs (or 16% of all primary schools). At the secondary level, it was the fourth most

popular language but studied at the largest number of secondary colleges, comprising 35.7% of

those offering a Languages program (or 30.9% of all secondary colleges). Indonesian was studied

at three VSL centres (including through distance education) in the metropolitan area. In 2010, 376

students eligible to graduate from secondary college had completed Indonesian study through to

Year 12. Enrolments in Indonesian continually decreased between 2005 and 2010, declining 39%

overall, with significant decreases at both the primary (42.3%) and secondary (30.6%) levels.

Indonesian was taught by 322 teachers in 195 primary schools and 97 secondary colleges in 2010.

Table 1.5 Enrolment trends in Indonesian, 2005–2010.

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Primary schools 67,705 61,513 51,141 48,076 43,186 39,049

VSL primary 6 3 1 5 8 2

Secondary colleges 23,968 21,828 20,151 18,434 17,849 16,637

VSL secondary 217 252 245 390 326 369

Total 91,896 83,596 71,538 66,905 61,369 56,057

French French was the fourth most studied language in Victorian government schools in 2010, with 39,474

enrolments in government primary schools and secondary colleges, and the Victorian School of

Languages (including enrolments through distance education) (Table 1.6). It was the fourth most

studied language at the primary level, offered in 12.4% of the primary schools with Languages

programs (or 8.6% of all primary schools). The language remains extremely popular at the

secondary level, where it was the most studied language in 2010 and offered at 31.3% of the

secondary colleges with Languages programs (or 27.1% of all secondary colleges). French was

studied at 11 VSL centres (including through distance education) in both regional and metropolitan

areas. In 2010, 549 students eligible to graduate from secondary college had completed French

study through to Year 12. Enrolments in French remained relatively stable between 2005 and

2010, declining by 4.5% overall.

French was taught by 294 teachers in 105 primary schools and 85 secondary colleges in 2010.

Table 1.6 Enrolment trends in French, 2005–2010.

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Primary schools 19,157 17,644 17,614 17,852 17,785 18,969

VSL primary 35 37 27 85 93 118

Secondary colleges 21,804 21,765 20,352 20,782 19,673 19,731

VSL secondary 348 368 322 656 608 656

Total 41,344 39,814 38,315 39,375 38,159 39,474

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German German was the fifth most studied language in Victorian government schools in 2010, with 26,287

enrolments in government primary schools and secondary colleges, and the Victorian School of

Languages (including enrolments through distance education) (Table 1.7). It was the sixth most

popular language at the primary level, offered at 8% of the primary schools with Languages

programs (or 5.6% of all primary schools). It was the fifth most studied language at the secondary

level, studied at 22.8% of the secondary colleges which had Languages programs (or 19.8% of all

secondary colleges). German was studied at eight VSL centres (including through distance

education) in both regional and metropolitan areas. In 2010, 331 students eligible to graduate from

secondary college had completed German study through to Year 12. Enrolments in German

decreased 29.4% overall between 2005 and 2010, with these declines noticeable at both the

primary (32.4%) and secondary levels (27%). Although enrolments in German have been

decreasing, retention rates in the language remain strong at the secondary level, with a

proportionately high number of students continuing with the language through to Year 12.

German was taught by 199 teachers in 68 primary schools and 62 secondary colleges in 2010.

Table 1.7 Enrolment trends in German, 2005–2010.

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Primary schools 20,704 18,628 16,802 16,760 15,555 13,987

VSL primary 40 32 26 66 56 54

Secondary colleges 16,187 15,764 13,820 13,468 13,833 11,816

VSL secondary 294 241 268 372 388 430

Total 37,225 34,665 30,916 30,666 29,832 26,287

Chinese (Mandarin) Chinese (Mandarin) was the sixth most studied language in Victorian government schools in 2010,

with 22,460 enrolments in government primary schools and secondary colleges, and the Victorian

School of Languages (including enrolments through distance education) (Table 1.8). It was the fifth

most studied language at the primary level, offered in 7.3% of primary schools with Languages

programs (or 5.1% of all primary schools). It was the sixth most studied language at the secondary

level, offered in 15.5% of secondary colleges with Languages programs (or 13.4% of all secondary

colleges). Along with Auslan and Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin) continued to grow in popularity

between 2005 and 2010, with enrolments increasing 62.2% at the primary level and 33.6% at the

secondary level. Overall, enrolments increased by 51.3% between 2005 and 2010. Chinese

(Mandarin) was also studied at the largest number of VSL centres – twenty centres (including

through distance education) in both regional and metropolitan areas. In 2010, 1,364 students

eligible to graduate from secondary college had completed Chinese (Mandarin) study through to

Year 12.

Chinese (Mandarin) was taught by 110 teachers in 62 primary schools and 42 secondary colleges

in 2010.

Table 1.8 Enrolment trends in Chinese (Mandarin), 2005–2010.

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Primary schools 8,809 8,988 9,163 10,113 12,333 14,292

VSL primary 913 907 895 1,300 1,230 1,314

Secondary colleges 4,061 4,121 3,817 4,121 4,726 5,424

VSL secondary 1,065 991 932 1,497 1,441 1,430

Total 14,848 15,007 14,807 17,031 19,730 22,460

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Auslan Auslan was the seventh most studied language in Victorian government schools in 2010, with

11,543 enrolments in government primary schools and secondary colleges, and the Victorian

School of Languages (Table 1.9). It was the seventh most studied language at the primary level,

offered in 5.5% of the primary schools with Languages programs (or 3.8% of all primary schools).

Auslan is less studied at the secondary level, and is the ninth most studied language, offered in

2.2% of secondary colleges with Languages programs (or 1.9% of all secondary colleges). Along

with Chinese (Mandarin) and Spanish, Auslan continued to grow in popularity between 2005 and

2010, with enrolments increasing 124.5% at the primary level and 175.5% at the secondary level,

albeit from a small base. Overall, enrolments more than doubled between 2005 and 2010. Auslan

was introduced at the VSL in 2008 but was not offered in 2010. In 2010, 32 students eligible to

graduate from secondary college had completed Auslan study through to the Year 12 level.

Auslan was taught by 29 teachers in 47 primary schools and 6 secondary colleges in 2010.

Table 1.9 Enrolment trends in Auslan, 2005–2010.

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Primary schools 4,776 6,847 7,070 7,469 9,282 10,722

VSL primary 0 0 0 0 0 0

Secondary colleges 298 277 246 401 577 821

VSL secondary 4 0 0 9 5 0

Total 5,078 7,124 7,316 7,879 9,864 11,543

Greek Greek was the eighth most studied language in Victorian government schools in 2010, with 4,636

enrolments in government primary schools and secondary colleges, and the Victorian School of

Languages (including enrolments through distance education) (Table 1.10). It was the eighth most

studied language at the primary level, offered in 1.8% of the primary schools with Languages

programs (or 1.2% of all primary schools). Greek was the seventh most popular language at the

secondary level, offered in 4.4% of the secondary colleges with Languages programs (or 3.8% of

all secondary colleges). Between 2005 and 2010, enrolments in Greek fluctuated but overall

remained relatively stable. Enrolments were only 1.3% lower in 2010 than in 2005. Greek is also

popular at the VSL, offered at 13 VSL centres (including through distance education) in both

regional and metropolitan areas in 2010. In 2010, 132 students eligible to graduate from secondary

college had completed Greek study through to Year 12.

Greek was taught by 38 teachers in 15 primary schools and 12 secondary colleges in 2010.

Table 1.10 Enrolment trends in Greek, 2005–2010.

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Primary schools 3,131 3,169 3,104 3,187 3,026 2,656

VSL primary 570 547 456 664 655 660

Secondary colleges 830 873 766 795 915 1,115

VSL secondary 164 192 127 241 216 205

Total 4,695 4,781 4,453 4,887 4,812 4,636

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Spanish Spanish was the ninth most studied language in Victorian government schools in 2010, with 4,151

enrolments in government primary schools and secondary colleges, and the Victorian School of

Languages (including enrolments through distance education) (Table 1.11). It was the ninth most

studied language at the primary level, offered in 1.7% of the primary schools with Languages

programs (or 1.1% of all primary schools). Spanish is the seventh most popular language at the

secondary level, offered in 1.5% of the secondary colleges with Languages programs (or 1.3% of

all secondary colleges). Along with Auslan and Chinese (Mandarin), Spanish continued to grow in

popularity between 2005 and 2010. Enrolments increased by 20.4% at the primary level and by

153.7% at the secondary level, albeit from a small base. Overall, enrolments increased 55.7%

between 2005 and 2010. Spanish is also popular at the VSL, offered at 12 VSL centres (including

through distance education) in both regional and metropolitan areas in 2010. In 2010, 48 students

eligible to graduate from secondary college had completed Spanish study through to Year 12.

Spanish was taught by 10 teachers in 14 primary schools and 4 secondary colleges in 2010.

Table 1.11 Enrolment trends in Spanish, 2005–2010.

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Primary schools 1,877 1,479 1,808 1,653 1,819 2,260

VSL primary 108 101 90 175 206 185

Secondary colleges 523 435 1,083 1,041 1,280 1,327

VSL secondary 158 132 157 404 408 379

Total 2,666 2,147 3,138 3,273 3,713 4,151

Korean Korean was the fifteenth most studied language in Victorian government schools in 2010, with 657

students studying the language in government primary schools and secondary colleges, and the

Victorian School of Languages (Table 1.12). It was the fourteenth most studied language at the

primary level, offered in one primary school in 2010. Korean was not offered at any mainstream

secondary college in 2010. Between 2005 and 2010, Korean struggled to gain popularity in primary

schools and secondary colleges, although enrolments have increased 27.2% at the primary level

over this time (although it is still only taught at the one primary school). Mainstream secondary

enrolments have declined from a peak of 120 students in 2004 to zero in 2008. However, while

Korean has decreased in popularity in Victorian schools and colleges, the majority of students who

studied the language did so through the one VSL centre which offered the language in 2010.

Secondary enrolments in Korean at the VSL in 2010 were 122% higher than in 2005, indicating

that the VSL plays an important role in providing access to Korean study for the Korean Australian

population in Victoria. As a result, overall enrolments in Korean have actually increased 25.9%

between 2005 and 2010.

In 2010, 90 students eligible to graduate from secondary college had completed Korean study

through to Year 12.

Table 1.12 Enrolment trends in Korean, 2005–2010.

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Primary schools 305 438 358 365 375 388

VSL primary 41 48 46 55 75 78

Secondary colleges 120 91 1 0 0 0

VSL secondary 86 97 125 200 206 191

Total 522 674 530 620 656 657

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Trend tables for other selected languages.

Note that VSL figures include distance education enrolments.

Table 1.13 Enrolment trends in Greek, 2005–2010.

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Primary schools 3,131 3,169 3,104 3,187 3,026 2,656

VSL primary 570 547 456 664 655 660

Secondary colleges 830 873 766 795 915 1,115

VSL secondary 164 192 127 241 216 205

Total 4,695 4,781 4,453 4,887 4,812 4,636

Table 1.14 Enrolment trends in Vietnamese, 2005–2010.

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Primary schools 2,147 1,638 1,694 1,292 898 736

VSL primary 515 560 510 1,126 1,042 1,041

Secondary colleges 789 570 563 671 431 375

VSL secondary 422 585 542 1,030 1,014 1,045

Total 3,873 3,353 3,309 4,119 3,385 3,197

Table 1.15 Enrolment trends in Arabic, 2005–2010.

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Primary schools 469 535 922 645 928 764

VSL primary 176 288 306 383 354 391

Secondary colleges 549 432 423 420 356 370

VSL secondary 275 224 157 337 334 358

Total 1,469 1,479 1,808 1,785 1,972 1,883

Table 1.16 Enrolment trends in Turkish, 2005–2010.

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Primary schools 248 673 600 583 1,202 652

VSL primary 691 600 537 596 486 468

Secondary colleges 266 305 305 221 221 286

VSL secondary 657 582 424 559 435 439

Total 1,862 2,160 1,866 1,959 2,344 1,845

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Section 2: Summary of Findings

Primary Schools

Schools Eight hundred and forty seven (847) government primary schools provided some form of

Languages program in 2010, 69.4% of the total of 1,221 primary schools1. Across all

schools, Languages study is most commonly offered at Year 5 (65.4%) and Year 6

(65.2%).

Italian was the most widely taught language in Victorian primary schools, with 209 or

17.1% of all schools offering Italian, followed by Indonesian (195 schools, 16%), Japanese

(179 schools, 14.7%), French (105 schools, 8.6%), German (68 schools, 5.6%), Chinese

(Mandarin) (62 schools, 5.1%), Auslan (47 schools, 3.8%) and Greek (15 schools, 1.2%).

Students A total of 205,015 primary students studied a language in 2010, representing 66.8% of

government primary school students. Languages study was lowest at the Prep level,

where 57.1% of students studied a language, while the highest concentration of students

studying a language was at Years 5 (73.7%) and 6 (73.7%).

Languages taught Twenty one languages were offered in government primary schools in 2010 (excluding the

VSL). Dutch, Swahili and Thai, which were not offered in 2009, were taught in primary

schools in 2010.

The eight most widely studied languages in 2010 were Italian (accounting for 27.2% of

enrolments), Japanese (21.1%), Indonesian (19%), French (9.3%), Chinese (Mandarin)

(7%), German (6.8%), Auslan (5.2%) and Greek (1.3%).

Relative to 2009 figures, notable increases in student enrolments in 2010 were observed

in Japanese (41,798 to 43,183), French (17,785 to 18,969) and Chinese (Mandarin)

(12,333 to 14,292), with enrolments declining in Italian (58,984 to 55,783), Indonesian

(43,186 to 39,049) and German (15,555 to 13,987).

Contact time The time spent by primary students on language learning varied considerably according to

the type of program and the resources available to schools. Contact time ranged from 10

minutes to 360 minutes per week, with an average of 56.2 minutes per week (excluding

Bilingual programs in which Languages programs were provided for between 420 and 685

minutes per week). Excluding Bilingual programs, only 2.1% of Languages programs

consisted of at least 150 minutes of teaching per week, the recommended minimum

contact time according to the Curriculum Planning Guidelines (DEECD).

Program type A majority of primary school students, 60.4%, studied a language through Languages

programs which focused largely on language acquisition. Students in Language and

cultural awareness programs, which focus largely on culture, accounted for 38.3% of

primary school students, with a further 1.3% of students studying Languages in Bilingual

programs.

The most common method of teacher provision for Languages programs was through

Languages staff allocations within schools (92.3%), followed by externally

1 All schools with primary and secondary enrolments (except special schools and English language schools)

are included in this survey. Multi-campus schools are regarded as one school. Schools offering both primary and secondary levels are included in both primary and secondary analyses as appropriate.

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employed/funded Languages teachers (4.2%), ICT assisted teaching (2.5%) and the

Bilingual Schools Project initiative (1%).

Target groups The vast majority of students, 90.7%, were in classes primarily targeting second language

learners. Mixed classes, which incorporate students with and without a background in the

target language, increased slightly to 8.6% in 2010, while students in first language

classes represented 0.7% of primary school students.

Regional provision of languages The Eastern Metropolitan Region had the highest level of Languages provision at the

primary level, with 94.1% of schools offering Languages programs. Provision of

Languages programs also rose in the Southern Metropolitan Region to 81% but fell across

the board in the other seven educational regions, with the most notable decline occurring

in the Gippsland Region, down to 39.2%.

ICT The number of primary students studying a language through ICT increased to 5,089 in

2010. ICT was used to deliver programs in Auslan, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German,

Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Karen and Thai.

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Secondary Colleges

Colleges In 2010, 272 or 86.6% of the 314 government secondary colleges

2 provided Languages

programs at one or more year levels.

Of the colleges providing a Languages program, 47.4% provided a continuous language

sequence from Year 7 to Year 12. A further 11.1% provided a Languages program

continuously from Year 7 to Year 10.

Indonesian was the most widely taught language across Victorian government secondary

colleges, (97 or 30.9% of all secondary colleges offered Indonesian), followed by

Japanese (90 colleges, 28.7%), French (85 colleges, 27.1%), Italian (73 colleges, 23.3%),

German (62 colleges, 19.8%), Chinese (Mandarin) (42 colleges, 13.4%), Greek (12

colleges, 3.8%) and Vietnamese (7 colleges, 2.2%).

Students A total of 91,657 students studied Languages in government secondary colleges in 2010,

representing 41.1% of full-time students at Victorian government colleges. A further 2,899

student enrolments were recorded for students studying a second language (for example,

through taster programs), bringing the total number of student enrolments to 94,556.

Among the students who were eligible to graduate from VCE in 2010, 17.4% completed a

Languages course during their schooling.

Languages taught Seventeen languages were taught in government secondary colleges in 2010. The

languages with highest enrolments were the same as in 2009, namely, French, Japanese,

Italian, Indonesian, German, Chinese (Mandarin), Spanish and Greek.

Male/female enrolments In 2010, male students of Languages slightly outnumbered female students in Years 7

and 8, but by Year 12, females accounted for 62.8% of Languages students.

Among the more widely studied languages, enrolments were fairly even distributed

between males and females. Among the smaller candidature languages, females were

most prominent in Arabic (68.4% of enrolments across all year levels), while males were

more prominent in the study of Maori (60.9%).

Language study at the VCE level Among the students eligible to complete Year 12 in 2010, 4,733 or 17.4% of students

completed a Languages course during their schooling. In total, 38 languages were studied

with the five most studied languages being Chinese (Mandarin), French, Japanese,

Indonesian and Vietnamese.

Contact time The average weekly contact time for Languages programs increased slightly at all year

levels in 2010, with Year 7 students studying a language for an average of 145.7 minutes

per week and Year 12 students studying a language for an average of 237.2 minutes per

week.

In 2010, 66.1% of Year 7 Languages students and 69% of Year 8 Languages students

were in programs that ran for a minimum of 144 minutes per week. At Years 11 and 12,

2

All schools with primary and secondary enrolments (except special schools and English language schools)

are included in this survey. Multi-campus schools are regarded as one school. Schools offering both primary and secondary levels are included in both primary and secondary analyses as appropriate.

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98% and 98.6% of Languages students, respectively, studied for a minimum of 190

minutes per week.

Program type Ninety seven point seven percent (97.7%) of secondary programs were Languages

programs focusing specifically on the target language, while Language and cultural

awareness programs accounted for 2.3% of programs.

Target groups Ninety four point one percent (94.1%) of secondary Languages students were in classes

primarily targeting second language learners. Students in mixed language classes

represented 4.7% of enrolments, while 1.2% of students were in classes targeting first

language learners.

Regional provision of languages In 2010, 44.1% of secondary students in metropolitan areas studied a language, while the

percentage in regional areas was 34.4%. The greatest disparity between metropolitan and

regional provision occurred at the Year 9 level where 51.8% of metropolitan students and

22.6% of regional students undertook the study of a language. By the Year 12 level, this

disparity had decreased to 8.8% of metropolitan students and 4.6% of regional students.

(Please note that these figures relate to students enrolled in a Year 12 Languages

program. Overall, 17.4% of students had completed a Languages course by the time they

graduated from high school. See the Languages Study at the VCE Level section for

further detail).

At the secondary level, Indonesian was the most widely studied language in the regional

areas, with 34% of regional students studying the language. Conversely, enrolments in

metropolitan regions were spread over more languages, with French and Italian the most

popular languages, both with 22.6% of enrolments.

The Western Metropolitan Region had the highest proportion of secondary students

studying a language at 47.6%, while the lowest level of uptake was in the Gippsland

Region where 29.2% of students studied a language.

ICT Three hundred (300) secondary students studied French, German, Greek, Indonesian,

Italian, Japanese and Thai through ICT in 2010.

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Teachers of Languages

There were 1,719 Languages teachers with some level of Languages qualification

teaching in government primary schools and secondary colleges in 2010. Approximately

270 non-Languages teachers were also assisting in or providing Languages programs for

students. A further 245 (approx.) Languages qualified teachers were working in primary

schools and secondary colleges in 2010 in areas other than the teaching of Languages, or

were on leave.

Teachers of Asian languages represented 44.9% of Languages teachers, European

language teachers accounted for 52.6% of teachers while the remaining 2.5% of

Languages teachers taught Arabic, Auslan, Maori and Turkish. Teachers of Italian

comprised the largest group of teachers of European languages at 20.1% of all teachers,

while teachers of Indonesian comprised the largest group of teachers of Asian languages

at 18.5% of all teachers.

In 2010, 82% of Languages teachers were female. Males represented a slightly higher

percentage of teachers of Asian languages (19.3%) than of European languages (16.5%).

Amongst Languages teachers, 57% were fully qualified, with a three-year post-VCE

tertiary major and Languages methodology training, a four-year ‘beginners’ tertiary

sequence of language study and Languages methodology training, or Languages

accreditation. Broken down, 41.2% of teachers at the primary level and 67% of teachers at

the secondary level were fully qualified. Overall, 65% of language teachers had

undertaken a Languages methodology course.

Sixty eight point five percent (68.5%) of secondary Languages teachers were employed

full time, with only 36.8% of primary Languages teachers employed full time. However, the

average time spent teaching Languages each week was similar at both levels, at 11.4

hours per week for teachers working at the primary level and 10.8 for teachers at the

secondary level.

Victorian School of Languages

Victorian School of Languages (VSL) In 2010, students studied 45 languages across 43 centres (12 in regional areas). Among

the 45 languages offered, 44 were studied at the primary level, while all 45 of the

languages were studied at the secondary level. Students were provided with

approximately three hours per week of instruction, mainly on Saturday mornings.

Languages not offered in 2010 included Auslan, an Australian Aboriginal Language

(Wergaia), Somali and Tamil, while classes in Chin (Hakha) were introduced for the first

time.

In 2010, 15,908 students from government, Catholic and independent schools and

colleges, as well as home-schooled students studied through the VSL, an increase of

5.6% from 2009 figures. Enrolments totalled 6,749 at the primary level and 9,159 at the

secondary level. These figures include enrolments through distance education.

In 2010, government students accounted for 69.2% of enrolments at the VSL, with

students from Catholic and independent schools and home-schooled students accounting

for the remaining 30.8% of enrolments.

VSL Distance Education Section The Distance Education Section of the VSL offered programs in Arabic, Chinese

(Mandarin), French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin and Spanish in

2010.

There were 1,572 students enrolled in the Distance Education Section, from all

educational sectors, in 2010 (17.1% of secondary level enrolments).

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Section 3: Primary Schools

Schools

In 2010, 1,221 government schools offered primary level education in Victoria, with 847 or 69.4%

of these schools providing some form of Languages program. This figure represents a decrease of

33 schools in comparison to the previous year. The number of students studying a language

decreased slightly between 2009 and 2010, by 1.2%, although enrolments decreased 23.2%

between 2004 and 2010 (Table 3.3). Of the 374 primary schools without Languages programs, the

majority stated that they had been unable to attract qualified Languages staff or to sufficiently fund

a Languages program.

While there are 847 government primary schools offering Languages programs, Languages study

is not necessarily offered at all year levels within each of these schools. As can be seen in Figure

3.1, Languages provision is highest at the senior primary levels, from Years 3 to 6 (between 61.5%

and 65.4% of students). Provision of Languages is lower from Prep to Year 2, although a majority

of primary schools continue to offer a Languages program at these levels (between 53.4% and

56.9% of students). Since 2005, there has been a notable decline in the number of schools offering

a Languages program, around 20 percentage points across all year levels (Figure 3.1 and Table

3.1).

Figure 3.1 Percentage of primary schools providing Languages programs by year level, 2004–2010.

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Year 6

Year 5

Year 4

Year 3

Year 2

Year 1

Prep

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Table 3.1 Number and percentage of primary schools with Languages programs by

year level, 2004–2010.

Year Prep Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6

2004 984

(77%)

996

(78%)

1,012

(80%)

1,069

(84%)

1,073

(84%)

1,075

(85%)

1,073

(84%)

2005 944

(74.3%)

976

(76.8%)

1,000

(78.7%)

1,070

(84.2%)

1,071

(84.3%)

1,073

(84.4%)

1,073

(84.4%)

2006 872

(69.2%)

908

(72.0%)

918

(72.8%)

994

(78.8%)

1,006

(79.8%)

1,017

(80.7%)

1,017

(80.7%)

2007 785

(62.5%)

812

(64.6%)

835

(66.5%)

907

(72.2%)

925

(73.6%)

944

(75.2%)

935

(74.4%)

2008 747

(59.6%)

779

(62.1%)

795

(63.4%)

863

(68.8%)

871

(69.5%)

910

(72.6%)

912

(72.7%)

2009 689

(55.6%)

718

(57.9%)

733

(59.1%)

801

(64.6%)

811

(65.4%)

838

(67.6%)

842

(67.9%)

2010 653

(53.5%)

691

(56.6%)

696

(57%)

752

(61.6%)

772

(63.2%)

800

(65.5%)

797

(65.3%)

Note that in 2010, while there were 847 primary schools (69.4%) offering a Languages program,

many schools did not offer a Languages program at all levels. As a result, the percentage of

schools offering a language at each year level was lower than the overall percentage, as can be

seen in Table 3.1.

Amongst the schools offering a Languages program, 72.6% ran continuous programs from Prep to

Year 6 (down from 79.5% in 2009), with 7.1% of schools running programs from Years 3 to 6

(Figure 3.2).

Figure 3.2 Sequences of Languages programs in primary schools, 2010.

Note that ‘Other’ refers to various non-sequential or partial sequences.

72.6%

7.1%

20.3%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

Prep to Year 6

Years 3 to 6

Other

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Government primary schools offered 21 languages in 2010. Three languages were taught in 2010

that were not taught in 2009, namely, Dutch, Swahili and Thai. Among the six most widely taught

languages, Chinese (Mandarin) continued to grow, with a further 11 schools offering the language

in 2010. The number of schools offering Italian and Indonesian declined notably, while the number

of schools offering French, Japanese and German remained relatively stable. Schools offering

Turkish declined from seven to five and those teaching Aboriginal Languages declined from three to

one. On the other hand, the number of schools offering Auslan continued to increase, with four

more primary schools teaching that language in 2010. The number of schools teaching the

remaining languages remained relatively stable in 2010 (Table 3.2).

Table 3.2 Number and percentage of primary schools offering each language,

2010.

Language No. %* Change from 2009

(number of schools)

Italian 209 17.1 -15

Indonesian 195 16 -10

Japanese 179 14.7 -3

French 105 8.6 0

German 68 5.6 -3

Chinese (Mandarin) 62 5.1 +11

Auslan 47 3.8 +4

Greek 15 1.2 -1

Spanish 14 1.1 0

Arabic 7 0.6 -1

Vietnamese 7 0.6 0

Turkish 5 0.4 -2

Karen 2 0.2 0

Macedonian 2 0.2 0

Maori 2 0.2 0

Aboriginal Languages 1 0.1 -2

Afrikaans 1 <0.1 0

Dutch 1 <0.1 +1

Korean 1 <0.1 0

Swahili 1 <0.1 +1

Thai 1 <0.1 +1

Note that some schools offered more than one language. *As a percentage of all schools.

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Students

In 2010, 66.8% or 205,015 students studied a language in government primary schools. The

percentage of students studying a language declined a little from 67.7% in 2009 to 66.8% in 2010,

with participation rates decreasing slightly across all year levels. Comparative enrolment numbers

and percentages for 2004 to 2010, listed by year level, are presented in Table 3.3 and Figure 3.3.

Figure 3.4 provides a comparison of enrolments in Languages programs at the primary level

between 2004 and 2010.

Table 3.3 The number of primary students in Languages Programs by year level

and as a percentage of total student population, 2004–2010.

Year level

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Prep 34,237

(77.3%)

33,208

(74.7%)

30,612

(68.9%)

27, 283

(61.8%)

26,607

(60.5%)

26,504

(58.8%)

25,673

(57.1%)

Year 1 35,147

980.2%)

34,082

(77.9%)

31,825

(73%)

28,799

(66.2%)

27,496

(64.1%)

26,905

(61.6%)

27,090

(60.9%)

Year 2 35,716

(80.9%)

34,895

(79.5%)

32,275

(73.8%)

29,979

(69.1%)

28,892

(66.7%)

27,196

(63.1%)

27,185

(62.2%)

Year 3 39,864

(89.6%)

39,161

(88.6%)

36,707

(83.3%)

33,853

(77.3%)

32,298

(73.8%)

30,776

(70.8%)

29,930

(69.4%)

Year 4 40,846

(90.9%)

39,842

(89.1%)

37,168

(84.2%)

34,422

(78.7%)

32,275

(73.9%)

31,452

(71.5%)

31,053

(71.4%)

Year 5 40,392

(89.4%)

40,069

(89.3%)

37,969

(85.1%)

35,637

(81.3%)

34,073

(78.3%)

32,190

(74.2%)

32,141

(73.7%)

Year 6 40,698

(90.3%)

40,344

(89.1%)

38,398

(88%)

35,341

(81.3%)

34,098

(77.7%)

32,463

(74.3%)

31,943

(73.7%)

Total 266,900

(85.6%)

261,601

(84.1%)

244,504

(79.5%)

225,314

(73.6%)

215,739

(70.7%)

207,486

(67.7%)

205,015

(66.8%)

Figure 3.3 The number of primary students in Languages Programs by year level, 2004–2010.

25,000

30,000

35,000

40,000

45,000

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Year 6

Year 5

Year 4

Year 3

Year 2

Year 1

Prep

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Figure 3.4 Percentage of primary school students studying Languages, 2004–2010.

The total number of primary students (2010 mid-year census, excluding students in special and English language schools and ungraded students) was 306,684.8 (equivalent full-time of students).

85.6% 84.1%79.5% 73.6% 70.7%

67.7% 66.8%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

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Languages Taught

Twenty one languages were taught in government primary schools in 2010, with primary school

students also studying 44 languages through the VSL (out of a total of 45 languages available at

the VSL), including via distance education at the Year 6 level. Overall, primary school students

studied a total of 44 languages through schools and the VSL in 2010.

In primary schools, Italian retained the highest number of student enrolments (55,783 enrolments).

Japanese (43,183) and Indonesian (39,049) followed, with these three languages accounting for

67.3% of all primary Languages enrolments in government schools. The other languages taught in

primary schools, in order of enrolment numbers, were French, Chinese (Mandarin), German,

Auslan, Greek, Spanish, Arabic, Vietnamese, Turkish, Karen, Korean, Swahili, Maori, Macedonian,

Aboriginal Languages, Afrikaans, Dutch and Thai. Table 3.4 provides details of student enrolments

by language and year level, while Figure 3.6 provides a proportional representation of Languages

enrolments.

Dutch, Swahili and Thai, which were not offered in 2009, were offered in 2010.

Between 2009 and 2010, fluctuations in enrolments occurred for most languages. Amongst the

larger languages, Indonesian (-9.6%), Italian (-5.4%) and German (-6.8%) experienced notable

decreases in enrolments, while Chinese (Mandarin) (15.9%) and Auslan (15.5%) again experienced

notable increases in enrolments. Amongst the smaller languages, enrolments in Spanish increased

24.2%, while enrolments in Aboriginal Languages, Arabic, Greek, Turkish and Vietnamese all

declined to some extent.

Figure 3.5 outlines the changes in enrolments for the six most studied languages between 2004

and 2010. The most noticeable trend was the continuing decline in enrolments for Indonesian,

Italian and German, while enrolments in French and Japanese have remained stable. Enrolments in

Chinese (Mandarin) and Auslan remained strong and continued to grow.

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Table 3.4 Primary enrolments by language and year level, 2010.

Language Prep Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Total %

Italian 7,031 7,469 7,104 8,252 8,697 8,712 8,518 55,783 27.2

Japanese 5,624 5,845 5,765 6,430 6,339 6,634 6,546 43,183 21.1

Indonesian 4,117 4,551 4,914 5,931 6,189 6,576 6,771 39,049 19

French 2,529 2,416 2,706 2,587 2,864 2,946 2,921 18,969 9.3

Chinese (Mandarin)

1,862 2,026 1,974 2,007 2,150 2,173 2,100 14,292 7

German 1,770 1,851 1,839 1,993 2,104 2,160 2,270 13,987 6.8

Auslan 1,505 1,668 1,517 1,460 1,495 1,584 1,493 10,722 5.2

Greek 369 448 437 364 324 379 335 2,656 1.3

Spanish 379 317 332 328 316 298 290 2,260 1.1

Arabic 150 114 95 114 108 84 99 764 0.4

Vietnamese 83 95 99 97 105 132 125 736 0.4

Turkish 27 31 121 130 115 117 111 652 0.3

Karen 68 63 66 70 65 150 153 635 0.3

Korean 64 46 57 64 56 55 46 388 0.2

Swahili 34 41 40 59 60 51 50 335 0.2

Maori 28 16 26 23 28 59 52 232 0.1

Macedonian 20 21 19 10 24 20 14 128 0.1

Aboriginal Languages

0 60 59 0 0 0 0 119 0.1

Afrikaans 10 5 10 8 7 10 12 62 <0.1

Dutch 3 7 5 3 7 1 9 35 <0.1

Thai 0 0 0 0 0 0 28 28 <0.1

Total 25,673 27,090 27,185 29,930 31,053 32,141 31,943 205,015 100.0

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Figure 3.5 Primary enrolments for the six most studied languages, 2004–2010.

Figure 3.6 Primary level enrolments by language, 2010.

0

10,000

20,000

30,000

40,000

50,000

60,000

70,000

80,000

90,000

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Italian

Indonesian

Japanese

German

French

Chinese (Mandarin)

Italian, 55,783

Japanese, 43,183

Indonesian, 39,049

French, 18,969

Chinese (Mandarin),

14,292

German, 13,987

Auslan, 10,722

Greek, 2,656

Other, 6374

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Contact Time

The time primary students spent on Languages learning in 2010 ranged from 10 minutes to 360

minutes per week, with an average of 56.2 minutes per week (excluding the bilingual programs,

where programs were provided for between 420 and 685 minutes per week. See the Bilingual

Program section for further details). The largest proportion of students, 77.5%, were in programs

that ran for between 31 and 60 minutes per week (Figure 3.7), while only 2.1% of students were in

programs that ran for the recommended minimum of 150 minutes per week. Figure 3.8 details the

average contact time per week between 2004 and 2010.

Figure 3.7 Enrolments in primary Languages programs by minutes per week, 2009-2010.

Figure 3.8 Average minutes of Languages study per week, 2004–2010.

14.8%

77.5%

2.4% 2.8%0.5% 2.1%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

0 to 30 minutes

31 to 60 minutes

61 to 90 minutes

91 to 120 minutes

121 to 150 minutes

More than 150 minutes

2009

2010

67 63.4 62.5 64.6

57.5 57.1 56.2

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

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Program Types

Individual programs within schools were divided into three types. The first type is a Languages

program, which focuses on the teaching and learning of the target language. The second type of

program is a bilingual program, which requires the curriculum to be taught in the target language for

a minimum of 450 minutes per week. The third type of program, a language and cultural awareness

program, involves a limited introduction of vocabulary and a greater focus on teaching aspects of

society and culture. The aims of the programs and the teaching methods used differ accordingly.

In 2010, 60.4% of primary students studied a language through Languages programs, with a further

38.3% of students studying a language through language and cultural awareness programs. The

remaining 1.3% of students were enrolled in bilingual programs (Figure 3.9).

Figure 3.9 Primary Languages enrolments by program type, 2004–2010.

The percentage of students studying through language and cultural awareness programs or

through Languages programs differed significantly according to the language being studied.

Amongst the languages of larger candidature, Chinese (Mandarin) (71.1%), Japanese (66.6%),

German (62.6%), French (61.9%), Italian (59.7%) and Indonesian (55.1%) were taught

predominantly through Languages programs (Table 3.5). Many of the smaller languages were only

taught in language and cultural awareness programs, including Aboriginal Languages, Afrikaans,

Dutch, Karen, Korean, Swahili and Thai.

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Languages program

Language and Cultural Awareness

Bilingual

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Table 3.5 Primary enrolments by language and program type, 2010.

Language Bilingual Language

and cultural Languages Total

Italian 900 21,585 33,298 55,783

Japanese 367 14,060 28,756 43,183

Indonesian 13 17,527 21,509 39,049

French 460 6,764 11,745 18,969

Chinese (Mandarin) 93 4,039 10,160 14,292

German 355 4,880 8,752 13,987

Auslan 0 5,058 5,664 10,722

Greek 71 936 1,649 2,656

Spanish 0 703 1,557 2,260

Arabic 170 165 429 764

Other 236 2,767 347 3,350

Total 2,665 78,484 123,866 205,015

Percentage 1.3 38.3 60.4 100

There were four methods of staff provision for primary Languages classes: through Languages staff

allocations within schools; through externally funded or employed Languages staff; through ICT, or

through the Bilingual Schools Project initiative. Languages staff allocations within schools covered

92.3% of students studying in Languages programs, with the remaining 4.2% of enrolments

covered by externally employed/funded Languages teachers (4.3%), allocations through the

Bilingual Schools Project initiative (1%) and the use of ICT (2.5%). See Table 3.6 for further details.

Table 3.6 Enrolments in primary schools by method of provision and language,

2010.

Language Bilingual schools project

Externally funded

ICT Languages

staffing allocation

Italian 0 185 891 54,707

Japanese 367 2,961 380 39,475

Indonesian 266 852 2,369 35,562

French 758 738 663 16,810

Chinese (Mandarin) 93 530 120 13,549

German 279 1,100 246 12,362

Auslan 0 1,095 306 9,321

Greek 58 0 0 2,598

Spanish 41 48 0 2,171

Arabic 0 214 0 550

Other 212 937 114 2,087

Total 2,074 8,660 5,089 189,192

Percentage 1 4.2 2.5 92.3

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Target Groups

An essential consideration in the planning of any Languages program is the composition of the

target group of students. Schools were asked whether their programs were targeted at first

language learners (where most of the students had a background in the target language), second

language learners (where most of the students did not have a background in the target language),

or mixed classes (where some students had a background in the target language while others did

not).

Nearly all primary school students, 90.7%, were in programs targeted towards second language

learners, with 8.6% of students participating in mixed classes and 0.7% of students in first language

classes. The largest enrolments for first language classes were in Chinese (Mandarin) and Arabic.

See Table 3.7 below.

Table 3.7 Enrolments by language and target group, 2010.

Language First

language Mixed

classes Second

language Total

Italian 0 3,244 52,539 55,783

Japanese 0 1,176 42,007 43,183

Indonesian 0 1,620 37,429 39,049

French 0 1,711 17,258 18,969

Chinese (Mandarin) 322 4,423 9,547 14,292

German 0 274 13,713 13,987

Auslan 0 1,130 9,592 10,722

Greek 198 1,502 956 2,656

Spanish 0 270 1,990 2,260

Arabic 467 297 0 764

Other 361 1,955 1,034 3,350

Total 1,348 17,602 186,065 205,015

Percentage 0.7 8.6 90.7 100

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Regional Provision of Languages study

Overall, 69.3% of government primary schools offered some form of Languages program in 2010.

The Eastern Metropolitan Region had the highest percentage of primary schools providing a

Languages program at 91.9% of schools, while the Gippsland Region had the lowest level of

provision at 39.2% of schools. A comparison between provision (percentage of schools) in all

educational regions between 2008 and 2010 is provided in Figure 3.10, with details of both school

numbers and percentages for 2009 and 2010 provided in Table 3.8.

When examining Languages study according to region, Indonesian, Italian and Japanese had the

highest student enrolments across regions. Indonesian had the highest enrolments in the Barwon

South Western, Loddon Mallee and Southern Metropolitan Regions; Italian had the highest

enrolments in the Western and Northern Metropolitan Regions, while Japanese had the highest

enrolments in the Grampians, Gippsland, Hume and Eastern Metropolitan Regions.

Languages study was concentrated in some regions. In the Loddon Mallee Region, for example,

55.2% of all primary school students studying a language were studying Indonesian, while 57% of

enrolments in the Northern Metropolitan Region were in Italian programs. See Table 3.9 for further

details.

Figure 3.10 Percentage of primary schools providing a Languages program by region, 2008–2010.

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%2008

2009

2010

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Table 3.8 Primary schools providing Languages programs by region, 2009 and 2010.

Region

2009

Schools teaching

Languages

Total schools

%

2010

Schools teaching

Languages

Total schools

%

Barwon South Western 77 112 68.8 75 112 67

Grampians 77 110 70 71 109 65.1

Loddon Mallee 80 138 58 77 135 57

Hume 94 131 71.8 89 130 68.5

Gippsland 56 125 44.8 49 125 39.2

Eastern Metropolitan 174 188 92.6 170 185 91.9

Western Metropolitan 67 99 67.7 67 100 67

Southern Metropolitan 151 190 79.5 149 184 81

Northern Metropolitan 104 147 70.7 100 142 70.4

Total 880 1,240 71 847 1,222 69.3

Table 3.9 Primary enrolments by language and region, 2010.

Language B.S.W Gramp L.M. Hume Gipps. E.Met W.Met S.Met N.Met

Italian 3,305 1,170 207 2,525 441 10,944 11,101 9,779 16,311

Japanese 1,948 2,528 388 3,101 1,440 12,638 6,108 11,061 3,971

Indonesian 5,669 319 5,735 2,664 1,125 7,720 1,913 12,185 1,719

French 2,045 938 1,556 1,074 533 4,595 385 7,232 611

Chinese (Mandarin)

92 1,739 66 0 22 8,290 736 2,750 597

German 219 290 774 173 692 8,931 0 2,350 558

Auslan 230 74 1,668 1,249 839 593 665 3,586 1,818

Greek 0 0 0 0 0 568 70 397 1,621

Spanish 48 26 0 0 30 809 270 1,077 0

Arabic 0 0 0 253 0 0 0 0 511

Vietnamese 0 0 0 0 0 0 617 0 119

Turkish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 652

Karen 0 0 0 0 0 0 635 0 0

Korean 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 388 0

Swahili 0 0 0 0 0 335 0 0 0

Maori 42 0 0 0 0 0 0 190 0

Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 128

Aboriginal Languages

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 119 0

Afrikaans 0 0 0 62 0 0 0 0 0

Dutch 0 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Thai 0 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Total 13,598 7,147 10,394 11,101 5,122 55,423 22,500 51,114 28,616

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ICT

As indicated in Figure 3.11 below, enrolments in Languages programs provided through ICT have

varied considerably since 2004. These initiatives involve the provision of Languages classes

through visual and audio links such as the internet, video/DVDs, computers, satellite conferencing

and telephone. In 2010, the number of students studying a language through ICT provision

continued to increase to 5,089 students. ICT provision was used to provide classes in Auslan,

Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Karen and Thai.

Figure 3.11 Primary Languages enrolments through ICT, 2004 – 2010.

1,334 1,243

151 522

3,595

4,274

5,089

0

1,000

2,000

3,000

4,000

5,000

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

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Section 4: Secondary Colleges

Colleges

In 2010, the number of government secondary colleges offering Languages programs decreased by

three to 272 colleges. This represents 86.6% of the 314 government secondary colleges teaching

secondary level classes. Of the secondary colleges that offered Languages programs, provision

was highest at the lower secondary level, with 95.2% of these colleges offering Languages

programs at the Year 7 level. By the Year 12 level, Languages provision had decreased to 55.9% of

secondary colleges with Languages programs (Figure 4.1).

Figure 4.1 Percentage of secondary colleges providing Languages programs by year level, 2004–2010.

Of the secondary colleges that offered Languages programs in 2010, 47.4% provided continuous

programs from Years 7 to 12. Note that around 6.5% of secondary colleges do not offer classes

from Years 7 to 12. They include, for example, senior secondary colleges or Years 7 to 10 colleges

(Figure 4.2).

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11

Year 12

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Figure 4.2 Sequences of Languages programs in secondary colleges, 2009–2010.

‘Other sequences’ refers to the provision of Languages programs at non-sequential year levels or partial sequences.

In 2010, the language offerings at government secondary colleges remained relatively similar to

those in 2009. The most notable decrease was for Italian, with 5 fewer secondary colleges offering

the language in 2010. The number of colleges offering Chinese (Mandarin) continued to increase,

up two schools in 2010, while the number of colleges offering Greek increased by three (Table 4.1).

Maori and Thai were offered in two colleges in 2010, while Aboriginal Languages and Classical

Greek, which were offered in 2009, were not offered in 2010.

Table 4.1 Number and percentage of secondary colleges by language, 2010.

Language No. % * Change from 2009

(Number of schools)

Indonesian 97 30.9 -1

Japanese 90 28.7 -1

French 85 27.1 +2

Italian 73 23.2 -5

German 62 19.7 -2

Chinese (Mandarin) 42 13.4 +2

Greek 12 3.8 +3

Vietnamese 7 2.2 0

Auslan 6 1.9 +1

Arabic 5 1.6 0

Spanish 4 1.3 -1

Macedonian 3 1 -1

Latin 2 0.6 0

Khmer 1 0.3 0

Maori 1 0.3 +1

Thai 1 0.3 +1

Turkish 1 0.3 0

(Aboriginal Languages 0 n/a -2)

(Classical Greek 0 n/a -1)

Note that many colleges offered more than one language. *As a percentage of all colleges.

47.4%

9.6%

11.1%

5.9%

13%

13%

49.3%

8.5%

9.9%

11%

9.9%

11.4%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Years 7 to 12

Years 7 to 11

Years 7 to 10

Years 7 to 9

Years 7 to 8

Other sequences

2009

2010

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The number of secondary colleges running compulsory Languages programs in 2010 remained

very similar to 2009 levels, with a slight increase in the number of colleges where Languages study

was compulsory at the Year 10 level (Figure 4.3 and Table 4.2).

Figure 4.3 Percentage of secondary colleges (amongst those offering a language) where a language is compulsory by year level, 2005–10.

Table 4.2 Compulsory Languages study by year level (Years 7 to 10) (amongst

those offering a Languages program), 2007–2010.

2007 2008 2009 2010

Year level No. % No. % No. % No. %

Year 7 250 88 252 92 249 90 241 89.3

Year 8 221 78 222 81 223 81 214 79.3

Year 9 87 30 89 33 95 34 85 31.5

Year 10 19 7 21 8 21 8 23 8.5

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

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Students

In 2010, 41.1% or 91,657 students studied a language in government secondary colleges (Table

4.3). A further 2,899 enrolments represented students who studied more than one language

through taster programs, bringing the total number of Languages enrolments to 94,556. The

number of students studying a language in 2010 represents a decrease of 3.2% from 2009 figures

(Table 4.3). Participation rates fluctuated slightly across all year levels, with the most noticeable

changes occurring at the Year 10 (down from 15.9% to 14.1%) and the Year 12 (down from 8.2% to

7.6%) levels (Figure 4.4). Further detail is presented in Table 4.3.

Note that in Figure 4.4 and Table 4.3 students are only counted once (91,657 students). All other

tables and figures in this section contain information on the number of enrolments in Languages

programs (94,556 enrolments). Enrolment figures double count students who are studying more

than one language through taster programs.

Furthermore, the Year 12 enrolment figures in this section count students enrolled in Year 12 and

studying a language. Note that a large number of students complete Languages study to the Unit 4

level before they are actually enrolled in Year 12. These students are not included in Year 12

figures in this section. The section, Languages Study at the VCE Level, explains this discrepancy

and provides further details about the study of Languages through to the Year 12 (Unit 4) level

amongst graduating students.

Figure 4.4 Percentage of students studying a language by year level, 2004–2010.

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Table 4.3 Government secondary Languages student numbers by year level, 2007–2010.

2007 2008 2009 2010

Year level No. % No. % No. % No. %

Year 7 35,479 91.6 34,817 91.9 33,993 90.9 33,712 91.1

Year 8 32,754 83.1 32,621 83.7 31,759 83 30,558 81.1

Year 9 18,018 45.1 16,998 42.7 17,281 43.5 16,416 42.3

Year 10 6,938 18.3 6,659 17.1 6,212 15.9 5,595 14.1

Year 11 3,472 9.3 3,055 8.3 2,926 7.7 2,952 7.7

Year 12 2,695 9.1 2,536 8.2 2,526 8.2 2,424 7.6

Total 99,356 44.5 96,686 43.3 94,697 42.4 91,657 41.1

As shown in Figure 4.5, the proportion of secondary students enrolled in Languages programs at

the secondary level decreased from 52.4% of secondary students in 2004 to 41.1% in 2010,

although the rate of decline slowed between 2008 and 2010.

Figure 4.5 Percentage of secondary college students studying a language, 2004–2010.

Fifteen secondary colleges offered taster courses where, for example, students studied two

languages for twenty weeks each per year.

52.4%

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Languages Taught

Seventeen languages were taught in secondary colleges in 2010, with secondary college students

also studying 45 languages through the VSL (of a total of 45 languages available at the VSL),

including via distance education. Overall, students at secondary colleges studied a total of 45

languages through colleges or the VSL in 2010.

In 2010, French and Japanese remained the two most widely studied languages in secondary

colleges, although enrolments in Japanese declined 4.9% between 2009 and 2010. Enrolments in

Italian and Indonesian also declined, 4.6% and 6.8% respectively. German, Chinese (Mandarin),

Spanish, Greek, Auslan and Vietnamese rounded out the ten most widely studied languages in

2010 (Table 4.4). Amongst these languages, enrolments in Chinese (Mandarin) continued to grow

(+14.8%), as did those in Greek (+21.9%), Auslan (+42.3%) and Spanish (+3.7%). Enrolments in

German (-14.6%) and Vietnamese (-13%) declined.

Among the languages of smaller candidature, Turkish enrolments grew the most, up 29.4% on

2009 enrolments.

Aboriginal Languages and Classical Greek were not offered in 2010, while Maori and Thai, which

were not offered in 2009, were taught in 2010.

Table 4.4 Secondary enrolments by language and year level, 2010.

Language Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 Total %

French 6,801 6,534 3,721 1,483 692 500 19,731 20.9

Japanese 7,042 5,631 3,125 1,299 588 430 18,115 19.2

Italian 6,782 6,347 3,516 860 270 204 17,979 19.0

Indonesian 7,101 5,952 2,322 648 341 273 16,637 17.6

German 4,264 3,622 2,418 785 432 295 11,816 12.5

Chinese (Mandarin)

1,920 1,689 633 296 363 523 5,424 5.7

Spanish 566 472 268 3 11 7 1,327 1.4

Greek 334 301 272 67 86 55 1,115 1.2

Auslan 381 316 65 4 39 16 821 0.9

Vietnamese 107 95 66 29 41 37 375 0.4

Arabic 115 89 81 54 23 8 370 0.4

Turkish 72 46 80 36 23 29 286 0.3

Latin 99 50 52 0 36 22 259 0.3

Macedonian 57 81 31 29 7 15 220 0.2

Khmer 0 7 20 0 0 10 37 <0.1

Maori 21 0 0 2 0 0 23 <0.1

Thai 12 9 0 0 0 0 21 <0.1

Total 35,674 31,241 16,670 5,595 2,952 2,424 94,556 100

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Figure 4.6 provides a proportional representation of all Languages enrolments in government

secondary colleges in 2010, while Figure 4.7 provides a trend analysis of enrolments in the six most

widely studied languages. As can be seen in Figure 4.7, between 2004 and 2010, enrolments in

Indonesian and German declined notably, while enrolments in Italian and Japanese fluctuated

before declining between 2007 and 2010. Enrolments in French also fluctuated but remained

relatively stable. Chinese (Mandarin) was the only language in Figure 4.7 to experience sustained

increases in enrolments between 2004 and 2010.

Figure 4.6 Secondary Languages enrolments, 2010.

Figure 4.7 Secondary enrolments, six most widely studied languages, 2004–2010.

French, 19,731Japanese, 18,115

Italian, 17,979

Indonesian, 16,637

German, 11,816 Chinese (Mandarin), 5,424

Spanish, 1,327

Greek, 1,115

Other, 2,412

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Table 4.5 represents changes in the percentage of students who study the eight most widely

studied languages at the Year 7 level and at the Year 12 level. French, Indonesian, Italian and

Japanese were the most studied languages at the Year 7 level, but by Year 12, proportional

enrolments in Italian and Indonesian had decreased significantly. This trend was countered by a

dramatic increase in proportional enrolments in Chinese (Mandarin). While German, Greek and

Spanish had proportionately lower enrolments at the Year 7 level, retention rates for these

languages were strong.

Table 4.5 Secondary enrolments as a percentage of all Languages enrolments,

selected languages, Year 7 and 12, 2010.

Language Year 7 Year 12

Chinese (Mandarin) 5.4% 21.6%

French 19.1% 20.6%

German 12.0% 12.2%

Greek 0.9% 2.3%

Indonesian 19.9% 11.3%

Italian 19.0% 8.4%

Japanese 19.7% 17.7%

Spanish 1.6% 3.0%

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Male/Female Enrolments

Equivalent numbers of males and females undertook Languages study at the Year 7 and 8 levels in 2010

due to the predominantly compulsory nature of Languages study at these levels. The most notable

change in enrolments for 2010 was a continuing decline in enrolments at the Year 10 level, -9.4% for

males and -8.8% for females. Enrolments also declined for both males and females at the Year 9 level,

down 3.2% for each groups.

While the gender division to enrolments was fairly evenly divided at Years 7 and 8, by Year 12, 62.8% of

students of Languages were female (Figure 4.8). Table 4.6 provides a breakdown of gender by

language.

The overall proportion of secondary Languages students was 50.5% female and 49.5% male (Table 4.6).

Figure 4.8 Secondary Languages enrolments by gender and year level, 2010.

51.8% 50.8% 48.9%

41.2%37.9% 37.2%

48.2% 49.2% 51.1%

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Table 4.6 Secondary enrolments by gender and language, 2010.

Male Female Total

Language No. % No. % No.

French 8,845 44.8 10,886 55.2 19,731

Japanese 9,265 51.1 8,850 48.9 18,115

Italian 9,202 51.2 8,777 48.8 17,979

Indonesian 8,265 49.7 8,372 50.3 16,637

German 6,031 51.0 5,785 49.0 11,816

Chinese (Mandarin) 2,757 50.8 2,659 49.2 5,424

Spanish 681 51.3 646 48.7 1,327

Greek 626 56.1 489 43.9 1,115

Auslan 397 48.4 424 51.6 821

Vietnamese 190 50.7 185 49.3 375

Arabic 117 31.6 253 68.4 370

Turkish 154 53.8 132 46.2 286

Latin 146 56.4 113 43.6 259

Macedonian 108 49.1 112 50.9 220

Khmer 16 43.2 21 56.8 37

Maori 14 60.9 9 39.1 23

Thai 12 57.1 9 42.9 21

Total 46,826 49.5 47,722 50.5 94,556

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Languages Study at the VCE Level

VCE (Years 11 & 12) enrolment figures in Table 4.4 refer to students who are studying Languages at

each year level. However, the flexible nature of the Victorian curriculum results in many students

completing a Languages course before they enrol in Year 12. While Table 4.4 (above) indicates that

2,424 students are studying a language in Year 12, it is important to note that nearly 2,000 Year 12

students had already completed a Languages course prior to this time.

Similarly, although Table 4.3 (see page 47) indicates that 7.6% of students enrolled in Year 12 were

completing Unit 4 in a Languages course, this figure rises considerably once we consider government

secondary college students who completed a Languages course (Unit 4) at an earlier year level or

outside of regular school classes through the VSL or a community language school.

Among students from government colleges who were eligible to graduate in 2010, 17.4% had completed

a Languages course either through their school, through the VSL (including via distance education) or

through a community language school. (This data was provided by the Victorian Curriculum and

Assessment Authority.)

Table 4.7 lists the most widely studied languages by students eligible to graduate from VCE in 2010, as

well as figures for 2008 and 2009.

Table 4.7 Student enrolments (government colleges) by language, students eligible to graduate from VCE, 2008 -2010 (based on VCE unit 4 enrolments).

Language No. of

students, 2010 Language

No. of students, 2009

Language No. of

students, 2008

Chinese (Mandarin)

1,364 Chinese (Mandarin)

1,191 Chinese (Mandarin)

1,179

French 549 Japanese 588 French 588

Japanese 530 French 535 Japanese 539

Indonesian 376 Vietnamese 400 Indonesian 470

Vietnamese 371 German 360 German 378

German 331 Indonesian 351 Vietnamese 284

Italian 235 Italian 220 Italian 284

Greek 132 Turkish 136 Turkish 150

Turkish 129 Greek 134 Greek 147

Korean 90 Arabic 87 Arabic 88

Other 626 Other 551 Other 604

Total 4,733

(17.4%) Total

4,644

(17.5%) Total

4,711

(17.6%)

Source: VCAA, 2010.

Snapshot of students eligible to graduate from VCE in 2010 (students from government colleges) and the languages studied

Table 4.8, following, provides detailed information about the students who graduated in 2010 having

completed a Languages course during their senior secondary schooling.

As outlined in Table 4.8, this included finishing a Languages course when enrolled in Year 10, Year 11 or

Year 12. Overall, a majority of students, 57.9%, completed Unit 4 of a Languages course when they were

enrolled in Year 12 (2010). A further 39.4% of students completed Unit 4 of a Languages course when

they were enrolled in Year 11 (2009), while the remaining 2.6% completed Unit 4 when they were

enrolled in Year 10 (2008).

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Table 4.8 Students eligible to graduate from VCE, 2010 (government colleges): Number of students who completed a VCE Unit 4 Languages course by year Unit 4 was undertaken.

Year Unit 4 undertaken

Language Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 Total

Chinese (Mandarin) 50 924 390 1,364

(Chinese First Language) (13) (543) (185) (741)

(Chinese Second Language Advanced) (20) (140) (62) (222)

(Chinese Second Language) (17) (241) (143) (401)

French 0 50 499 549

Japanese 4 76 450 530

(Japanese First Language) (1) (13) (12) (26)

(Japanese Second Language) (3) (63) (438) (504)

Indonesian 1 73 302 376

(Indonesian First Language) (0) (12) (4) (16)

(Indonesian Second Language) (1) (61) (298) (360)

Vietnamese 17 235 119 371

German 2 50 279 331

Italian 1 28 206 235

Greek 5 61 66 132

Turkish 0 40 89 129

Korean 9 67 14 90

(Korean First Language) (4) (33) (9) (46)

(Korean Second Language) (5) (34) (5) (44)

Arabic 0 18 49 67

Persian 2 26 35 63

Other 34 218 244 496

Total 125 1,866 2,742 4,733

Percentage 2.6 39.4 57.9 100

Source: VCAA, 2010.

Students eligible to graduate from VCE in 2010 (students from government colleges): Year 10 (2008) snapshot: Students who completed Unit 4 when enrolled in Year 10 (125

students) studied 24 languages, with the highest percentage studying Chinese language courses

(40%). The second most studied language was Vietnamese, with 13.6% of students.

Students eligible to graduate from VCE in 2010 (students from government colleges): Year 11 (2009) snapshot: Students who completed Unit 4 when enrolled in Year 11 (1,866

students) studied 36 languages, with the highest percentage again studying Chinese language courses

(49.5%). The second most studied language was again Vietnamese, with 12.6% of students.

Students eligible to graduate from VCE in 2010 (students from government colleges): Year 12 (2010) snapshot: Students who completed Unit 4 when enrolled in Year 12 (2,742

students) studied 34 languages, with the highest percentage of students studying French (18.2%),

followed by Japanese (16.4%).

Note that there is a discrepancy between the number of government secondary college students

enrolled in Year 12 studying a language, as reported by colleges, in Table 4.4 (2,424 students) and the

number of government secondary college students enrolled in Year 12 studying a language in Table

4.9 (2,742 students), as reported by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority. This

discrepancy is due to the fact that some students, who are enrolled in a government secondary college

during the day, studied a language through a community language school after hours or on the

weekend.

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VCE Languages study and complementary provision of Languages education The following information in Table 4.9 is based on enrolments at the Year 11 and 12 levels in

government schools (as is Table 4.3), not on the VCAA data above, which counts Unit 4 enrolments.

As can be seen from the table, the VSL continues to play an important role in the provision of

Languages at the senior secondary level, with almost equal proportions of Year 12 students studying at

school during the day or through the VSL.

Table 4.9 Year 11 and 12 enrolments at secondary colleges and the VSL, 2008–2010

Year 11

2008 2009 2010

No. %* No. %* No. %*

Government colleges 3,055 8.3 2,926 7.7 2,952 7.7

VSL 1,781 4.8 1,803 4.7 1,827 4.8

Total 4,836 13.1 4,732 12.5 4,779 12.5

Year 12

Government colleges 2,536 8.2 2,526 8.2 2,424 7.6

VSL 2,329 7.6 2,156 7 2,203 6.9

Total 4,865 15.8 4,682 15.2 4,627 14.4

Note that the figures for VSL enrolments include all students enrolled at the VSL regardless of the college they

attend (government, Catholic or independent). They also include enrolments through distance education.

Enrolments at Community Language Schools have not been considered in the above table.

*As a percentage of all students.

Regional differences Overall, 8.9% and 8.8% of students enrolled in Years 11 and 12 in metropolitan areas studied a

language in 2010, similar to 2009 figures, or 8.8% overall at the senior secondary level. In regional

areas, the proportion of Languages students continued to drop, to 5.1% and 4.6% at Years 11 and 12

respectively, or 4.9% at the senior secondary level (Figure 4.9). However, it is important to bear in mind

the caveats outlined in the second paragraph at the start of the section, Languages Study at the VCE

level, with enrolments at the senior secondary levels likely to be slightly higher in both regional and

metropolitan areas than the numbers in Table 4.9 and Figure 4.9 indicate.

Figure 4.9 Languages enrolments at Years 11 and 12 by regional or metropolitan regions, 2004–2010.

10.1%10.4% 10.2%

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Contact Time

The average contact time for Languages programs continued to improve in 2010, with small increases

(around two minutes) in the average time spent on Languages study per week, at every year level.

Contact time varied for each language and at each year level. At the Year 7 level, the average time

allocated for Languages programs was 145.7 minutes per week. Year 7 students of Thai only received

20 minutes of tuition per week, but the majority of students studied for between 100 minutes (Maori) to

200 minutes (Turkish) per week. At the Year 12 level, the average contact time was 237.2 minutes per

week, ranging from 225 minutes per week for Auslan to 260 minutes for Latin. Average contact times at

other year levels were as follows: Year 8 – 151.1 minutes, Year 9 – 170 minutes, Year 10 – 209.5

minutes and Year 11 – 230.8 minutes.

The time allocated to Languages study also varied from college to college. In 2010, 66.1% of Year 7

Languages students (slightly up from 64.7% in 2009) and 69% of Year 8 Languages students (down from

72.3% in 2009) were in programs that ran for a minimum of 144 minutes per week. (The recommended

minimum is 150 minutes per week, although many school and college timetables produce 144 minute

allotments per week). At the Year 11 and Year 12 levels, 98% and 98.6% of students respectively,

studied a language for more than 190 minutes per week.

Figure 4.10 Average minutes per week for Languages programs by year level, 2004–2010.

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Program Types

The range of Languages programs provided and the teaching methods used in secondary colleges

varied according to student needs and available resources. Colleges were asked to classify their

programs as a Languages program, which focuses on the teaching and learning of the target language; a

bilingual program, which requires the curriculum to be taught in the target language for a minimum of 450

minutes per week, or a language and cultural awareness program, where a limited vocabulary and

aspects of culture and society are introduced.

The percentage of students enrolled in Languages programs remained similar to 2010 levels at 97.7%,

with enrolments in language and cultural awareness programs also remaining at similar levels at 2.3% of

students (Table 4.10 and Figure 4.11).

Table 4.10 Secondary Languages enrolments by language and program type, 2010.

Language Language and

cultural awareness

Languages Total

French 788 18,943 19,731

Japanese 391 17,724 18,115

Italian 107 17,872 17,979

Indonesian 425 16,212 16,637

German 0 11,816 11,816

Chinese (Mandarin)

0 5,424 5,424

Spanish 0 1,327 1,327

Greek 176 939 1,115

Auslan 288 533 821

Vietnamese 0 375 375

Other 21 1,195 1,216

Total 2,196 92,360 94,556

Percentage 2.3 97.7 100.0

Figure 4.11 Secondary Languages enrolments by program type, 2004–2010.

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Target Groups

Colleges provided Languages programs targeted at three different groups of students: first language

learners (where most of the students had a background in the target language), second language

learners (where most of the students did not have a background in the target language) or mixed classes

(where some students had a background in the target language, while others did not).

In 2010, the vast majority of students, 94.1%, were in classes targeted at second language learners.

Enrolments in mixed classes represented 4.7% of student enrolments, with the highest proportion of

students in mixed classes studying Chinese (Mandarin) and Italian. First language classes only

represented 1.2% of enrolments in Languages programs, with Chinese (Mandarin) and Italian again

having the highest proportion of student enrolments in these classes (Table 4.11).

Table 4.11 Secondary enrolments by language and target group, 2010.

Language First language Mixed classes Second

language Total

French 0 595 19,136 19,731

Japanese 0 345 17,770 18,115

Italian 206 1,503 16,270 17,979

Indonesian 0 1 16,636 16,637

German 0 168 11,648 11,816

Chinese (Mandarin) 354 1,023 4,047 5,424

Spanish 0 0 1,327 1,327

Greek 41 537 537 1,115

Auslan 0 13 808 821

Vietnamese 133 160 82 375

Other 403 132 681 1,216

Total 1,137 4,477 88,942 94,556

Percentage 1.2 4.7 94.1 100

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Regional Provision of Languages

In 2010, the percentage of students studying a language in metropolitan areas was higher than in

regional areas at all year levels except Year 7. The gap between metropolitan and regional students

increased from Year 8, with a particularly large decrease in enrolments at the Year 9 level in

regional colleges. As a result, the proportion of Languages students in metropolitan areas was

around double that of regional secondary colleges from Year 9 onwards (Figure 4.12). Further

details are available in Table 4.12. Overall, 44.1% of students studied a language in metropolitan

areas, while the percentage of students in regional areas studying a language stood at 34.4% in

2010.

Figure 4.12 Secondary Languages student numbers in metropolitan and regional areas by year level, 2010.

Table 4.12 Secondary Languages enrolments by metropolitan and regional areas by year level, 2010.

Regional Metropolitan

Year level Languages students

All students

% Languages students

All

students %

Year 7 10,732 11,791.4 91 22,980 25,223.8 91.1

Year 8 8,354 12,112.4 69 22,204 25,549.1 86.9

Year 9 2,850 12,592 22.6 13,566 26,186.9 51.8

Year 10 1,117 12,561.9 8.9 4,478 27,002.9 16.6

Year 11 595 11,589 5.1 2,357 26,535.6 8.9

Year 12 430 9,443.2 4.6 1,994 22,638.4 8.8

Note: Students enrolled in taster courses are only counted once in the above table.

91.1%86.9%

51.8%

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Metropolitan

Regional

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In 2010, German, Indonesian and Japanese recorded the highest percentage of student enrolments

across the regional areas, while Italian and French recorded the highest percentage of student

enrolments across the metropolitan regions (highlighted in bold in Table 4.13). See Table 4.13,

following, for further details.

Six main languages, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Indonesian, Italian and Japanese were

offered in all five regional areas. In addition, Auslan (Loddon Mallee and Hume Regions), Greek

(Loddon Mallee Region), Maori (Barwon South Western Region) and Thai (Grampians Region) were

offered in some regional areas. Each metropolitan region offered between nine and 12 languages in

their secondary colleges.

Table 4.13 Secondary enrolments by region and language, 2010.

Language B.S.W Gramp. L.M Hume Gipps. E.Met W.Met S.Met N.Met

French 1,419 241 1,607 306 439 6,667 1,323 5,604 2,125

Japanese 1,555 894 332 1,657 1,310 3,027 3,313 4,952 1,075

Italian 634 163 444 695 323 2,320 5,853 1,285 6,262

Indonesian 2,600 194 2,891 1,832 1,032 1,738 1,377 4,393 580

German 707 1,023 455 138 582 3,492 774 3,370 1,275

Chinese (Mandarin)

310 622 207 19 16 2,355 244 786 865

Spanish 0 0 0 0 0 325 1,002 0 0

Greek 0 0 1 0 0 499 136 65 414

Auslan 0 0 107 339 0 13 288 0 74

Vietnamese 0 0 0 0 0 0 322 19 34

Arabic 0 0 0 0 0 0 101 0 269

Turkish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 286

Latin 0 0 0 0 0 0 141 118 0

Macedonian 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 220

Khmer 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 37 0

Maori 23 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Thai 0 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Total 7,248 3,158 6,044 4,986 3,702 20,436 14,874 20,629 13,479

ICT

In 2010, 300 secondary students studied French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese and Thai through ICT.

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Section 5: Teachers of Languages in Victorian Government Schools and Colleges

In 2010, there were 1,719 teachers teaching in Victorian government primary schools and secondary

colleges, who had some level of Languages qualification. Among the Languages teachers, 174 or

10.1% played multiple roles, teaching in more than one school or college, or at both the primary and

secondary levels (Figure 5.1). For example,

40 teachers taught the same language at two primary schools or secondary colleges

19 teachers taught more than one language at the one primary school or secondary college

106 teachers taught one or more languages at both the primary and secondary levels

7 teachers taught the same language at three different primary schools

2 teachers taught the same language at four different schools.

In addition, over 270 teachers teaching or assisting in Languages programs did not have recognised

Languages qualifications, although many of these teachers were undertaking Languages studies

and/or Languages methodology training in 2010. In some instances, rather than have a specialist

Languages teacher teaching the Languages program, all classroom teachers in some primary

schools incorporated Languages teaching into the general curriculum (with the support of a qualified

Languages teacher). There were also approximately 245 qualified teachers of Languages in primary

schools and secondary colleges who were not teaching a language in 2010. These teachers taught

other subjects, assumed other roles within schools or were on leave.

Figure 5.1 Primary school and secondary college Languages teachers, 2010.

552

106

1,061

0 200 400 600 800 1000 1200

Primary level

Primary and secondary level

Secondary level

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Teachers of Asian languages represented 44.9% of Languages teachers, European language

teachers accounted for 52.6% of teachers, while teachers of Arabic, Auslan, Maori and Turkish

made up the remaining 2.5% of Languages teachers. There were more teachers of Italian than any

of the other languages in 2010 (20.1% of all Languages teachers), followed by teachers of

Indonesian (18.5% of Languages teachers).

The percentage of Languages teachers who were male stood at 18% in 2010. Amongst teachers of

Asian languages, 19.3% were male, while 16.5% of teachers of European languages were male.

Amongst the larger candidature languages, Japanese was the language with the highest percentage

of male teachers (22.2%), while there were no male teachers for Khmer (Table 5.1). Numerically,

there were 1,409 female Languages teachers and 310 male teachers in primary schools and

secondary colleges in 2010.

Table 5.1 Teachers by gender and language, 2010.

Language Female Male Total

Italian 306 43 349

Indonesian 266 56 322

Japanese 248 73 321

French 239 55 294

German 158 41 199

Chinese (Mandarin) 92 18 110

Greek 33 5 38

Auslan 26 3 29

Vietnamese 12 3 15

Spanish 9 1 10

Macedonian 8 2 10

Arabic 4 4 8

Latin 4 3 7

Turkish 2 2 4

Maori 1 1 2

Khmer 1 0 1

Total 1,409 310 1,719

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Among the Languages teachers represented in Figure 5.2, 57% were fully qualified, 41.2% at the

primary level and 67% at the secondary level. These teachers have completed:

A three-year post-VCE major sequence or a four year beginners sequence at the tertiary

level in the language they were teaching (or have received a statement of equivalence

from a Victorian university), as well as an approved Languages teaching methodology

course, including theory and practicum,

or

A two-year post-VCE sequence or a three year beginners tertiary language sequence.

(These were acceptable secondary Languages teaching qualifications for teachers

entering the profession up to the beginning of 1996. Such teachers are deemed to be

qualified provided they have had continuing employment with the Department since that

time).

These percentages have remained relatively stable over the last six years (Figure 5.3). The

remaining teachers had various levels of qualifications, from a two-year post-VCE tertiary level

course, to TAFE or adult education level courses (Figure 5.2). Overall, 65% of Languages teachers

had undertaken Languages methodology training (theory) at the tertiary level, regardless of the level

of qualifications they held in the language they taught.

Figure 5.2 Languages teachers by qualification level, 2010.

2.2%

1.4%

7.5%

1.7%

1.2%

2.1%

4.0%

5.3%

11.9%

10.6%

47.3%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

Three year (post-VCE) tertiary language study (or equiv.)

LOTE Accreditation

Four year (beginners) tertiary language study

Two year (post-VCE) tertiary language study

Three year (beginners) tertiary language study

One year (post-VCE) tertiary language study

Two year (beginners) tertiary language study

One year (beginners) tertiary language study

Native speaker, no formal LOTE qualifications

Other (e.g. one year living in Japan)

Further tertiary studies, e.g. Masters

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Figure 5.3 Percentage of fully qualified teachers, primary and secondary levels, 2004–2010.

Figure 5.4 provides a comparison of the number of hours Languages teachers spend teaching

Languages each week. Among teachers at the primary level, the largest proportion of teachers,

49%, taught for less than 10 hours per week, while at the secondary level, the highest proportion of

teachers, 51.8%, taught for between 10 to 20 hours per week. This difference is also reflected in the

employment load of teachers. At the primary level, only 36.8% of Languages teachers are employed

full time, in comparison to the secondary level, where 68.5% of teachers are employed full time.

Despite the differences in employment level, the average time teaching Languages per week was

similar at the primary and secondary levels, with primary teachers teaching for an average of 11.4

hours per week and secondary teachers teaching for an average of 10.8 hours per week. Although

at both the primary and secondary levels, staff who were employed full time taught more hours of

Languages per week, with full time primary and secondary teachers teaching for an average of 13.6

and 11.2 hours per week, respectively. For part time staff, teachers at the primary and secondary

levels taught for an average of 10.4 and 7.8 hours per week, respectively.

45.6% 42.7% 43.8% 42.8% 44.3% 43.9%

67%

67.3% 71% 70% 66.8% 69.9% 69.4%

41.2%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Secondary

Primary

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Figure 5.4 Hours spent teaching Languages each week, primary and secondary levels, 2010.

49.1%

34.6%

16.3%

46.6%51.8%

1.6%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

Less than 10 hours 10 to 20 hours More than 20 hours

Primary

Secondary

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Section 6: Bilingual Programs in Victorian Government Schools

In 2010, one specialist school and eleven primary schools offered designated bilingual programs

(Table 6.1). Bilingual programs provide students with the opportunity to learn curriculum content in,

and through, both English and another language. In addition to the language curriculum, content-

based teaching takes place in two or more of the domains within the Discipline-based Learning

Strand of the Victorian Essential Learning Standards. Schools may choose from Science,

Mathematics, The Arts and The Humanities. Within these domains, bilingual classes are run for

subject areas such as ICT, cultural studies, visual arts, performing arts, health, sport and physical

education, civics and citizenship, economics, geography, history and the study of society and

environment (see Table 6.1). Schools participating in the designated bilingual programs are

expected to provide face-to-face teaching in and through the target language for a minimum of 7.5

hours per week, to each target group. Additionally, other activities at these schools may also be run

in the language such as library time, school assemblies, camps and excursions.

Teachers in the designated bilingual primary schools and secondary college are highly qualified

and are often supported by teaching aides, assistants offered directly to primary schools by

overseas governments or volunteers from the community. As well as their teaching duties at

schools, teachers also share their knowledge at a local, national and international level. Within local

clusters of schools, for example, they may provide activities for other schools to use in their

language classes. Teachers also provide training and support for student teachers and also host

teachers from overseas, modelling effective teaching and learning strategies for use in their home

countries. Many schools and teachers also work with university researchers around Australia to

conduct research into teaching methodology, student outcomes and the benefits of bilingual

education.

Once students near the end of their primary schooling, teachers and schools work with staff at

secondary colleges in their areas to provide the maximum opportunity for students to continue with

their Languages studies at an appropriate level. This includes developing student portfolios so that

secondary college staff are aware of each student’s linguistic achievements and, where possible,

provide an advanced curriculum from the Year 7 level.

Table 6.1, following, sets out details of the designated bilingual schools and their programs.

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Table 6.1 Designated bilingual programs, 2010.

School Languages Domains Year

levels Student numbers

Abbotsford Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) The Humanities, Mathematics, ICT and Languages P–5 29

Aurora School Auslan The Humanities, Mathematics and Languages P 17

Bayswater South Primary School German The Humanities, Science, The Arts and Languages P–6 279

Benalla East Primary School Indonesian The Humanities, Mathematics, Science and Languages 1–4 88

Camberwell Primary School French Mathematics, Science and Languages P–6 460

Caulfield Primary School Japanese The Humanities, The Arts and Languages P–6 107

Footscray Primary School Vietnamese The Humanities, Mathematics, Science, The Arts and Languages

P–5 91

Gruyere Primary School Japanese The Arts, The Humanities and Languages P–6 39

Huntingdale Primary School Japanese The Humanities, The Arts, Science and Languages P–6 221

Kennington Primary School Auslan The Humanities and Mathematics P-1, 3, 5-

6 95

Lalor North Primary School Macedonian and Greek The Humanities, Mathematics, Science, The Arts and Languages

P–6 147

Richmond West Primary School Chinese (Mandarin) and Vietnamese

The Humanities, Mathematics and Languages P–5, P–2 96

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Section 7: The Victorian School of Languages

In 2010, the Victorian School of Languages provided programs in 45 languages through its 43

centres (31 in the metropolitan area and 12 in regional areas), as well as through the Distance

Education section. The government-run VSL provides for students from all educational sectors who

wish to develop their home or heritage language, students who may be seeking continuity in

Languages study after changing schools, or students who wish to learn a new language. Lessons

are generally provided outside regular school hours, usually on Saturday mornings, and are

typically of three hours’ duration.

In total, 15,908 students from Prep to Year 12 studied Languages through the VSL in 2010

(including enrolments via distance education). Of these, 6,749 were primary level students and

9,159 were secondary level students. Total enrolments at the VSL in 2010 increased by 5.6%, from

the 2009 figure of 15,067.

Forty-five languages were taught at the VSL in 2010. Chin (Hakha) (spoken in Myanmar) was

introduced for the first time, while Auslan, Somali, Tamil and Wergaia (Australian Aboriginal

Language), which were all taught in 2009, were not taught in 2010.

Distance education continued to provide an important avenue for Languages study, with enrolments

in distance education representing 17.1% of secondary level VSL enrolments in 2010. A further four

students studied through distance education in Year 6. All figures referring to the VSL in this section

include enrolments through distance education. Further details on distance education are available

in the following section: Distance Education Section of the Victorian School of Languages.

Figure 7.1 provides a comparison of all VSL enrolments from 2004 to 2010 at the primary and

secondary levels and shows that enrolments at both the primary and secondary levels increased in

2010, by 4.8% at the primary level and 6.2% at the secondary level. Overall, enrolments increased

by 5.6%.

Figure 7.1 Enrolments at the VSL, 2004–2010.

15,452

14,43215,908

8,9368,262

9,159

6,264 6,170 6,749

0

3,000

6,000

9,000

12,000

15,000

18,000

2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

Total

Secondary

Primary

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Table 7.1 sets out the total VSL enrolments for each language by year level and shows that 45

languages were offered through the VSL in 2010. Latin was only studied at secondary level, while

the remaining 44 languages were studied at both primary and secondary levels. The five most

popular languages overall were Chinese (Mandarin), Vietnamese, Japanese, Turkish and Greek.

Together, these five languages accounted for 47.2% of total enrolments in the VSL, with the

remaining students spread over a wide range of languages.

Chinese (Mandarin) and Vietnamese were strongly represented across the primary and secondary

sectors – both languages have over 1,000 students each at primary and secondary levels. Turkish

and Arabic also had consistent enrolments over the primary and secondary levels. There were,

however, noticeable differences in patterns of enrolments between the primary and secondary

levels for some other languages. Community languages such as Greek and Sinhala, for example,

had stronger enrolments in the primary than in the secondary sector. By contrast, Japanese,

French, Italian, German and Spanish had a higher proportion of total enrolments at secondary level.

Amongst the languages of larger candidature, Japanese (16.4%), French (9.4%), Arabic (8.1%) and

Italian (7%) experienced a notable increase in enrolments, while amongst languages of smaller

candidature, Sinhala (433 to 490), Punjabi (334 to 420) and Dari (334 to 410) also experienced

notable growth in enrolments in 2010.

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Table 7.1 VSL enrolments by language and year level, 2010.

Language Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 Total %

Chinese (Mandarin)

268 246 204 198 208 190 184 145 163 154 298 486 2,744 17.2

Vietnamese 291 162 142 161 156 129 133 152 133 130 190 307 2,086 13.1

Japanese 4 9 15 10 19 13 146 105 110 124 181 187 923 5.8

Turkish 67 75 95 65 94 72 73 68 74 54 76 94 907 5.7

Greek 149 130 108 112 75 86 55 46 29 31 20 24 865 5.4

French 14 20 19 16 17 32 105 40 136 141 139 95 774 4.9

Arabic 84 65 72 57 58 55 56 45 40 38 84 95 749 4.7

Italian 33 21 27 35 36 51 93 46 74 86 94 63 659 4.1

Spanish 39 39 27 29 33 18 57 45 42 34 97 104 564 3.5

Sinhala 82 72 54 48 28 37 35 34 22 21 21 36 490 3.1

German 16 9 6 5 13 5 76 30 74 68 99 83 484 3.0

Macedonian 30 21 35 35 48 49 45 36 32 51 37 19 438 2.8

Punjabi 49 30 37 28 48 40 39 30 30 18 31 40 420 2.6

Dari 18 18 21 53 35 60 42 55 55 40 7 6 410 2.6

Indonesian 0 0 1 0 0 1 31 12 47 56 118 105 371 2.3

Croatian 22 25 33 37 23 40 29 28 23 23 27 39 349 2.2

Hindi 33 32 29 16 18 24 17 12 14 22 39 32 288 1.8

Korean 18 11 9 15 11 14 13 7 23 5 40 103 269 1.7

Karen 26 21 25 34 15 14 28 30 22 25 0 0 240 1.5

Chin (Hakha) 20 18 13 28 11 30 17 27 20 33 0 0 217 1.4

Polish 6 5 2 7 3 12 14 15 24 33 42 53 216 1.4

Bosnian 11 6 13 8 21 16 13 34 20 13 16 15 186 1.2

Persian 10 8 3 3 1 8 8 7 1 2 56 74 181 1.1

Khmer 19 14 15 14 8 9 9 16 11 11 5 21 152 1.0

Latin 0 0 0 0 0 0 38 6 25 14 29 9 121 0.8

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Language Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6 Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 Total %

Serbian 7 7 4 8 10 7 8 10 10 21 10 15 117 0.7

Russian 14 8 8 4 5 1 12 2 4 12 11 13 94 0.6

Hebrew 15 2 8 8 13 7 6 8 3 3 11 6 90 0.6

Portuguese 11 6 4 6 5 3 5 4 4 12 8 22 90 0.6

Filipino 4 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 5 1 16 25 55 0.3

Maltese 5 5 7 5 2 12 2 5 4 2 1 0 50 0.3

Dutch 5 3 0 4 2 0 1 3 3 5 8 11 45 0.3

Albanian 10 4 1 6 0 1 3 2 2 0 3 6 38 0.2

Hungarian 4 3 1 1 4 0 1 5 4 3 6 6 38 0.2

Dinka 2 4 4 0 4 7 4 4 4 2 0 0 35 0.2

Pushto 3 3 3 5 1 2 2 2 2 4 0 0 27 0.2

Syriac 2 2 5 1 5 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 20 0.1

Bengali 3 4 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 5 0 0 18 0.1

Romanian 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 7 9 18 0.1

Chinese (Cantonese)

3 1 4 1 1 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 17 0.1

Tigrinya 0 3 2 3 0 4 1 0 1 0 0 0 14 0.1

Amharic 2 3 1 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 12 0.1

Lithuanian 0 1 0 1 3 1 0 2 1 3 0 0 12 0.1

Swahili 2 1 0 2 1 0 2 0 1 1 0 0 10 0.1

Bulgarian 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 <0.1

Total 1,403 1,119 1,063 1,071 1,038 1,055 1,407 1,123 1,297 1,302 1,827 2,203 15,908 100

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Figure 7.2 represents the proportions of primary and secondary students studying at the VSL who

attend government and non-government schools and colleges and shows that access to

Languages study through the VSL remained important to both government and non-government

school students. Overall, the majority of students at the VSL at both the primary and secondary

levels were government school students, 69.2% of enrolments overall, with non-government school

students making up the remaining 30.8% of enrolments.

Figure 7.2 Languages enrolments at the VSL, by sector, 2010.

Figure 7.3 represents the proportion of government to non-government students at the VSL for the

eight most widely studied languages while Figure 7.4 looks at enrolments in the eight most widely

studied languages at the senior secondary level by sector at the VSL. There are a number of

interesting differences between the most studied languages overall at the VSL (Figure 7.3) and the

most studied languages at Years 11 and 12 at the VSL (Figure 7.4). For example, Turkish and

Greek are the fourth and fifth most studied languages at the VSL overall (Figure 7.3). However,

most of these enrolments are at the lower secondary levels, Only 18.7% of students of Turkish and

5.1% of students of Greek are studying these languages at Years 11 and 12, making them the ninth

and nineteenth most studied languages at the senior secondary level at the VSL.

In contrast, 39.9% of students studying Japanese, 30.2% of students studying French and 60.1% of

students studying Indonesian through the VSL do so at Years 11 and 12, highlighting the important

role of the VSL in providing an avenue for Languages study through to the senior secondary level

for students of these languages (Figure 7.4).

68.8% 69.5%

31.2%

33.5%

0%

20%

40%

60%

80%

100%

Primary Secondary

Government school students

Non-government school students

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Figure 7.3 Enrolments at the VSL by sector and language (eight most widely studied), 2010.

Figure 7.4 Enrolments at the VSL by sector and language (eight most widely studied), Years 11 and 12, 2010.

2,100

1,105

667792

622492

596285

644

981

256115

243 282153

374

0

500

1,000

1,500

2,000

2,500Government school students

Non-government school students

644

386

236

153 15096 105

150140111

132

81 73105

77 29

0

100

200

300

400

500

600

700Government school students

Non-government school students

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Tables 7.2 (primary) and 7.3 (secondary) provide full details of all enrolments at the VSL (all

education sectors) in 2010.

Table 7.2 Primary level VSL enrolments by language, 2010.

Language Gov’t

school students

Non-gov’t school

students Total Language

Gov’t school

students

Non-gov’t school

students Total

Chinese (Mandarin) 979 335 1,314 Russian 33 7 40

Vietnamese 461 580 1,041 Maltese 12 24 36

Greek 482 178 660 Polish 13 22 35

Turkish 415 53 468 Portuguese 9 26 35

Arabic 316 75 391 Persian 27 6 33

Sinhala 237 84 321 Albanian 19 3 22

Punjabi 188 44 232 Dinka 9 12 21

Macedonian 175 43 218 Pushto 9 8 17

Dari 188 17 205 Syriac 5 10 15

Italian 74 129 203 Dutch 12 2 14

Spanish 101 84 185 Bengali 9 4 13

Croatian 28 152 180 Chinese (Cantonese) 8 5 13

Hindi 116 36 152 Hungarian 4 9 13

Karen 135 0 135 Tigrinya 8 4 12

Chin (Hakha) 118 2 120 Amharic 8 0 8

French 68 50 118 Filipino 4 4 8

Khmer 65 14 79 Lithuanian 4 2 6

Korean 61 17 78 Swahili 0 6 6

Bosnian 59 16 75 Bulgarian 4 0 4

Japanese 55 15 70 Indonesian 1 1 2

German 30 24 54 Romanian 1 0 1

Hebrew 51 2 53 Total 4,641 2,108 6,749

Serbian 40 3 43

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Table 7.3 Secondary level VSL enrolments by language, all education sectors, 2010.

Language Gov’t

school students

Non-gov’t school

students Total Language

Gov’t school

students

Non-gov’t school

students Total

Chinese (Mandarin) 1,121 309 1,430 Chin (Hakha) 96 1 97

Vietnamese 644 401 1,045 Serbian 67 7 74

Japanese 612 241 853 Khmer 62 11 73

French 424 232 656 Portuguese 24 31 55

Italian 211 245 456 Russian 45 9 54

Turkish 377 62 439 Filipino 26 21 47

German 267 163 430 Hebrew 35 2 37

Spanish 178 201 379 Dutch 19 12 31

Indonesian 248 121 369 Hungarian 12 13 25

Arabic 280 78 358 Romanian 13 4 17

Macedonian 183 37 220 Albanian 14 2 16

Dari 196 9 205 Dinka 6 8 14

Greek 140 65 205 Maltese 5 9 14

Korean 149 42 191 Pushto 1 9 10

Punjabi 119 69 188 Lithuanian 3 3 6

Polish 74 107 181 Bengali 3 2 5

Croatian 50 119 169 Syriac 1 4 5

Sinhala 134 35 169 Amharic 1 3 4

Persian 145 3 148 Chinese (Cantonese) 3 1 4

Hindi 107 29 136 Swahili 0 4 4

Latin 76 45 121 Tigrinya 2 0 2

Bosnian 87 24 111 Bulgarian 1 0 1

Karen 104 1 105 Total 6,365 2,794 9,159

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Distance Education Section of the Victorian School of Languages

In 2010, the Distance Education Section of the Victorian School of Languages offered Languages

programs in Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese,

Latin and Spanish to primary (Year 6) and secondary level students wishing to study a language

which was not offered by their primary school or secondary college, or to those not currently

attending a school. Of all secondary students enrolled at the VSL in 2010, 17.1% were studying a

language through distance education. Since 2007, Languages study through distance education

has also been available at the Year 6 level. As Table 7.4 shows, four Year 6 students enrolled to

study a language through distance education in 2010.

Table 7.4 Student enrolments in distance education by language and year level, 2010.

Language Year 6 Year

7 Year

8 Year

9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 Total

French 2 87 12 64 44 73 58 340

German 0 56 17 48 49 67 49 286

Japanese 0 42 19 24 31 63 68 247

Indonesian 1 13 5 25 26 64 43 177

Italian 1 43 11 24 28 38 30 175

Latin 0 38 6 25 14 29 9 121

Spanish 0 27 0 0 0 36 25 88

Chinese (Mandarin) 0 0 0 0 0 49 32 81

Greek 0 11 3 3 6 7 5 35

Arabic 0 0 0 0 0 7 15 22

Total 4 317 73 213 198 433 334 1,572

Overall, the numbers of students studying a language through distance education decreased 21.2%

between 2007 and 2010, but were still 16.4% higher than enrolment levels in 2005 (Figure 7.5).

Enrolments in the six most studied languages have fluctuated between 2005 and 2010, with

enrolments in Latin (121 students) higher than enrolments in Spanish (88 students) in 2010.

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Figure 7.5 Student enrolments in distance education (six most studied languages), 2005–2010.

0

50

100

150

200

250

300

350

400

450

2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010

French

German

Japanese

Italian

Indonesian

Spanish

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Section 8: Appendices

Appendix 1: Program Types and Target Groups

Languages Programs (formerly called language object programs and LOTE programs) These programs focus on the teaching and learning of the target language/s. The Victorian DEECD

recommends that Languages programs be undertaken for a minimum of 150 minutes per week.

Bilingual Programs In these programs, at least two key learning areas, in addition to Languages programs, are taught

in the target language for at least 450 minutes per week. Existing programs receive additional

funding through the Department’s Bilingual Programs Initiative.

Language and Cultural Awareness Programs These programs introduce limited vocabulary and aspects of society, language and culture.

Second Language Model This model of program is designed to cater mainly for students without a background in the target language/s.

First Language Model This model of program is designed to cater mainly for students with a background in the target language/s.

Mixed Classes This type of program is designed to cater for both students who have, and students who do not have, a background in that language, e.g. Greek being taught to a mixed class containing students of both English-speaking background and students of Greek-speaking background.

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Appendix 2: List of Primary Schools by Languages, 2010

Aboriginal Languages (1 school)

3129 Tyabb Primary School

Afrikaans (1 school) 1488 Tallarook Primary School

Arabic (7 schools)

8800 Bayside P-12 College

5034 Campbellfield Heights Primary School

4952 Coolaroo South Primary School

4900 Dallas Primary School

5524 Meadows Primary School

4943 Shepparton (Wilmot Road) Primary School

4993 Upfield Primary School

Auslan (47 schools)

4169 Airly Primary School

4725 Bairnsdale West Primary School

3787 Balliang East Primary School

1125 Broadford Primary School

3689 Cardinia Primary School

3279 Chum Creek Primary School

716 Coimadai Primary School

4929 Comet Hill Primary School

4933 Dallas North Primary School

5037 Diamond Creek East Primary School

1582 Dunolly Primary School

3215 Eagle Point Primary School

4702 Eastwood Primary School

5513 Epping Views Primary School

5531 Golden Square Primary School

4545 Goongerah Primary School

5076 Grovedale West Primary School

4730 Harrisfield Primary School

5482 Hillsmeade Primary School

3686 Kennington Primary School

5135 Kingsley Park Primary School

3470 Koorlong Primary School

2122 Lake Charm Primary School

5494 Lynbrook Primary School

8848 Manor Lakes P-12 College

1112 Mansfield Primary School

3050 Metung Primary School

3315 Middle Kinglake Primary School

4389 Mildura South Primary School

1975 Morang South Primary School

4301 North Shore Primary School

2742 Officer Primary School

2744 Orbost Primary School

2961 Pearcedale Primary School

5232 Rangebank Primary School

4057 Red Cliffs Primary School

4753 Rosanna Golf Links Primary School

5313 Rowellyn Park Primary School

2820 Seville Primary School

5020 Shepparton (Guthrie Street) Primary School

4741 St Albans East Primary School

8846 The Lakes South Morang P-9 School

4700 Traralgon (Liddiard Road) Primary School

2182 Tyers Primary School

3466 Wesburn Primary School

5342 Willmott Park Primary School

5439 Woorinen District Primary School

Chinese (Mandarin) (62 schools)

1886 Abbotsford Primary School

6201 Alvie Consolidated School

4995 Ararat North Primary School

800 Ararat Primary School

4720 Ararat West Primary School

5301 Aspendale Gardens Primary School

2948 Auburn Primary School

4183 Auburn South Primary School

28 Bacchus Marsh Primary School

4638 Balwyn North Primary School

4318 Bentleigh West Primary School

4813 Beverley Hills Primary School

4991 Birralee Primary School

3631 Black Rock Primary School

454 Burwood East Primary School

2605 Carlton Gardens Primary School

84 Cheltenham Primary School

1054 Chewton Primary School

1360 Clifton Hill Primary School

6212 Collingwood College

5201 Delacombe Primary School

5454 Doncaster Gardens Primary School

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80 Appendix 2: Languages by primary school

197 Doncaster Primary School

2870 Elsternwick Primary School

5116 Eumemmerring Primary School

1912 Footscray City Primary School

5425 Glen Waverley Primary School

5010 Glendal Primary School

860 Great Western Primary School

244 Hallam Primary School

5434 Hawkesdale P-12 College

4986 Highvale Primary School

5176 Jells Park Primary School

4845 Kingsbury Primary School

5393 Lardner and District Primary School

2093 Little Bendigo Primary School

5113 Livingstone Primary School

2022 Macarthur Street Primary School

2271 Magpie Primary School

1554 Marnoo Primary School

5212 Milgate Primary School

4923 Mount View Primary School

2172 Mulgrave Primary School

5416 Parkhill Primary School

4881 Parkmore Primary School

4874 Pinewood Primary School

824 Preston South Primary School

4686 Reservoir East Primary School

5044 Richmond West Primary School

1595 Rupanyup Primary School

5168 Serpell Primary School

6252 Sherbrooke Community School

5537 Springvale Rise Primary School

4934 Stawell West Primary School

3113 Sunshine Primary School

5196 Templeton Primary School

5294 Thomas Mitchell Primary School

5094 Wheelers Hill Primary School

5530 Whitehorse Primary School

8831 Wycheproof P-12 College

5271 Yarra Primary School

5429 Yawarra Primary School

Dutch (1 school)

2805 Laharum Primary School

French (105 schools)

1637 Amphitheatre Primary School

8 Avenel Primary School

4 Avoca Primary School

4690 Ballarat North Primary School

8872 Balmoral P-12 Community College

2222 Baranduda Primary School

4873 Bellaire Primary School

1551 Big Hill Primary School

1070 Bolinda Primary School

2072 Buangor Primary School

5228 Bundarra Primary School

4932 Burwood Heights Primary School

888 Camberwell Primary School

5111 Camelot Rise Primary School

5426 Carrington Primary School

5435 Carwatha P-12 College

119 Castlemaine Primary School

3820 Caulfield Junior College

5533 Chandler Park Primary School

84 Cheltenham Primary School

327 Chiltern Primary School

3035 Clarkefield Primary School

1360 Clifton Hill Primary School

4712 Coatesville Primary School

4929 Comet Hill Primary School

4723 Dandenong North Primary School

1403 Dandenong Primary School

4217 Dandenong West Primary School

3680 Deepdene Primary School

3944 Dhurringile Primary School

5132 Dorset Primary School

4837 East Bentleigh Primary School

3790 Edithvale Primary School

5067 Falls Creek Primary School

1148 Glen Iris Primary School

5531 Golden Square Primary School

5398 Greta Valley Primary School

4694 Greythorn Primary School

283 Grovedale Primary School

4853 Guthridge Primary School

1108 Heyfield Primary School

4922 Karingal Primary School

2269 Katunga South Primary School

1075 Kew Primary School

5534 Keysborough Primary School

4845 Kingsbury Primary School

4990 Knox Park Primary School

5182 Kunyung Primary School

854 Lake Bolac College

1862 Landsborough Primary School

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Appendix 2: Languages by primary schools 81

3531 Langwarrin Primary School

6231 Lavers Hill P-12 College

5535 Lyndale Greens Primary School

1571 Macarthur Primary School

1408 Malmsbury Primary School

1943 Maroona Primary School

1379 Merrijig Primary School

3265 Monbulk Primary School

4925 Montmorency South Primary School

4972 Montpellier Primary School

1683 Moonambel Primary School

846 Mordialloc Beach Primary School

5040 Mornington Park Primary School

2033 Mornington Primary School

5140 Mount Eliza North Primary School

1335 Moyhu Primary School

2677 Myrrhee Primary School

1072 Napoleons Primary School

2248 Nar Nar Goon Primary School

5382 Narrawong District Primary School

1347 Natte Yallock Primary School

1330 Navarre Primary School

1913 Newham Primary School

2134 Numurkah Primary School

1463 Osbornes Flat Primary School

5190 Patterson Lakes Primary School

1194 Portland North Primary School

4750 Portland South Primary School

528 Riddells Creek Primary School

2129 Ripplebrook Primary School

1667 Rye Primary School

1028 Scoresby Primary School

5120 Silverton Primary School

583 South Yarra Primary School

5235 Southern Cross Primary School

4948 St Albans Heights Primary School

1646 St Arnaud Primary School

596 Stratford Primary School

2790 Strathmerton Primary School

954 Talbot Primary School

1954 Talgarno Primary School

2282 Tawonga Primary School

6236 Terang College

2056 Thoona Primary School

1207 Timor Primary School

6255 Tongala Primary School

3016 Toorak Primary School

1150 Trawalla Primary School

644 Wahgunyah Primary School

1033 Wandin Yallock Primary School

5094 Wheelers Hill Primary School

1916 White Hills Primary School

2520 Willow Grove Primary School

647 Woodend Primary School

4989 Wooranna Park Primary School

German (68 schools)

5428 Amsleigh Park Primary School

1492 Ashby Primary School

4143 Bayswater North Primary School

2163 Bayswater Primary School

4973 Bayswater South Primary School

3033 Beaconsfield Primary School

4850 Benalla West Primary School

40 Berwick Primary School

5193 Billanook Primary School

5011 Bimbadeen Heights Primary School

1184 Boneo Primary School

4967 Boronia Heights Primary School

4081 Boronia Primary School

5377 Branxholme & Wallacedale Community School

776 Bright P-12 College

4944 Bundoora Primary School

3385 Carrum Primary School

116 Cavendish Primary School

84 Cheltenham Primary School

5117 Churchill North Primary School

1136 Concongella Primary School

5189 Cranbourne West Primary School

1585 Dixons Creek Primary School

3956 Don Valley Primary School

6217 East Loddon P-12 College

5432 Edenhope College

4906 Fairhills Primary School

262 Gisborne Primary School

3982 Gladysdale Primary School

3703 Glen Huntly Primary School

283 Grovedale Primary School

3058 Halls Gap Primary School

843 Harrietville Primary School

4986 Highvale Primary School

2541 Hoddles Creek Primary School

3167 Hopetoun Primary School

4845 Kingsbury Primary School

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82 Appendix 2: Languages by primary school

5113 Livingstone Primary School

6242 Macleod College

2259 Montrose Primary School

2136 Morwell (Commercial Road) Primary School

4975 Morwell Park Primary School

3284 Mount Dandenong Primary School

5430 Mount Waverley North Primary School

4905 Mountain Gate Primary School

4808 Nunawading (Mount Pleasant Road) Primary School

4715 Old Orchard Primary School

5285 Orchard Grove Primary School

6245 Poowong Consolidated School

5431 Rangeview Primary School

6249 Red Hill Consolidated School

4686 Reservoir East Primary School

5241 Rolling Hills Primary School

3222 Sassafras Primary School

4974 Seaford North Primary School

4458 Somers Primary School

3505 Spring Gully Primary School

502 Stawell Primary School

5386 Tempy Primary School

2329 The Basin Primary School

3584 Traralgon (Grey Street) Primary School

4530 Upwey Primary School

4894 Upwey South Primary School

5157 Weeden Heights Primary School

4989 Wooranna Park Primary School

1259 Woori Yallock Primary School

2178 Yarragon Primary School

4705 Yellingbo Primary School

Greek (15 schools)

4733 Belle Vue Primary School

3336 Clarinda Primary School

484 Coburg Primary School

3941 Coburg West Primary School

2711 Fairfield Primary School

5035 Lalor North Primary School

4874 Pinewood Primary School

824 Preston South Primary School

4686 Reservoir East Primary School

5269 Richmond Primary School

5168 Serpell Primary School

1896 Stonnington Primary School

4744 Sunshine Heights Primary School

4177 Westgarth Primary School

5271 Yarra Primary School

Indonesian (195 schools)

5427 Albany Rise Primary School

1 Alberton Primary School

4332 Anglesea Primary School

4844 Antonio Park Primary School

6203 Apollo Bay P-12 College

1008 Axedale Primary School

5005 Ballam Park Primary School

33 Ballarat (Dana Street) Primary School

1687 Baringhup Primary School

2560 Beaconsfield Upper Primary School

749 Bealiba Primary School

1560 Beechworth Primary School

5254 Bellbridge Primary School

2256 Benalla East Primary School

31 Benalla Primary School

1267 Bendigo North Primary School

5213 Berwick Lodge Primary School

3933 Bittern Primary School

4798 Bonbeach Primary School

1796 Boort Primary School

1097 Bridgewater Primary School

1976 Camp Hill Primary School

120 Campbells Creek Primary School

1030 Carisbrook Primary School

3497 Carlisle River Primary School

5483 Caroline Springs College

5486 Carranballac P-9 College

1704 Carraragarmungee Primary School

2058 Casterton Primary School

2051 Castlemaine North Primary School

8830 Charlton College

3729 Chelsea Primary School

84 Cheltenham Primary School

3664 Clyde Primary School

117 Colac Primary School

4775 Colac South West Primary School

5127 Coldstream Primary School

2118 Coleraine Primary School

5292 Coral Park Primary School

8843 Corryong College

5371 Courtenay Gardens Primary School

5243 Craigieburn South Primary School

4887 Cranbourne Park Primary School

4755 Cranbourne South Primary School

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Appendix 2: Languages by primary schools 83

2041 Creswick North Primary School

122 Creswick Primary School

5255 Croydon Hills Primary School

2900 Croydon Primary School

878 Darraweit Guim Primary School

1642 Deans Marsh Primary School

1772 Dederang Primary School

5032 Deer Park West Primary School

1645 Drysdale Primary School

5133 Eastbourne Primary School

208 Echuca Primary School

3916 Echuca West Primary School

2028 Elliminyt Primary School

209 Eltham Primary School

3942 Elwood Primary School

1788 Eppalock Primary School

2318 Eskdale Primary School

5072 Fountain Gate Primary School

4682 Frankston East Primary School

2724 Garfield Primary School

541 Geelong East Primary School

1742 Glenrowan Primary School

755 Gordon Primary School

5478 Great Ryrie Primary School

890 Greenvale Primary School

283 Grovedale Primary School

264 Guildford Primary School

4407 Hallam Valley Primary School

4062 Hampton Park Primary School

5345 Heany Park Primary School

4681 Herne Hill Primary School

1004 Hesket Primary School

6225 Heywood Consolidated School

4176 Hughesdale Primary School

5136 James Cook Primary School

981 Kangaroo Flat Primary School

5053 Karingal Heights Primary School

5295 Karoo Primary School

2374 Kensington Primary School

4949 Kerang South Primary School

5350 Kilberry Valley Primary School

4845 Kingsbury Primary School

5234 Knox Gardens Primary School

618 Koroit And District Primary School

343 Kyneton Primary School

1275 Langley Primary School

3531 Langwarrin Primary School

2087 Leitchville Primary School

2981 Leongatha Primary School

1146 Leopold Primary School

5057 Lilydale West Primary School

4139 Lloyd Street Primary School

6233 Lockington Consolidated School

2162 Lorne-Aireys Inlet P-12 College

1866 Lysterfield Primary School

1660 Macedon Primary School

4224 Manifold Heights Primary School

3433 Marlo Primary School

400 Marong Primary School

8845 Maryborough Education Centre

4366 Mckinnon Primary School

5141 Melrose Primary School

2950 Mentone Primary School

8886 Merbein P-10 College

6237 Merino Consolidated School

1051 Mickleham Primary School

2904 Mitcham Primary School

887 Mitta Mitta Primary School

4662 Moe (South Street) Primary School

1911 Moolap Primary School

4644 Mount Beauty Primary School

1368 Mount Eliza Primary School

3859 Murrabit Group School

3708 Nanneella Estate Primary School

1901 Narre Warren North Primary School

8839 Narre Warren South P-12 College

467 New Gisborne Primary School

4650 Newborough Primary School

452 Newstead Primary School

1716 Nicholson Primary School

1178 Noorat Primary School

5363 Oatlands Primary School

3100 Ocean Grove Primary School

3494 Olinda Primary School

4767 Orbost North Primary School

2655 Osborne Primary School

6243 Pakenham Consolidated School

5504 Pakenham Lakeside Primary School

5281 Park Ridge Primary School

4171 Parkdale Primary School

4874 Pinewood Primary School

1915 Plenty Parklands Primary School

4159 Point Cook P-9 College

2455 Portarlington Primary School

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84 Appendix 2: Languages by primary school

489 Portland Primary School

1855 Puckapunyal Primary School

2005 Pyalong Primary School

1712 Pyramid Hill College

2443 Quambatook Group School

1165 Quarry Hill Primary School

1190 Queenscliff Primary School

5346 Ranfurly Primary School

2571 Redesdale Mia Mia Primary School

4911 Ringwood Heights Primary School

4120 Ringwood North Primary School

5130 River Gum Primary School

795 Rochester Primary School

919 Rockbank Primary School

2627 Rosebud Primary School

4663 Roslyn Primary School

5191 Seaford Park Primary School

3835 Seaford Primary School

4895 Simpson Primary School

5372 Somerville Rise Primary School

1316 Specimen Hill Primary School

866 St Leonards Primary School

1211 Strathfieldsaye Primary School

1365 Tallangatta Primary School

2337 Tallangatta Valley Primary School

1023 Tarnagulla Primary School

4275 Tarwin Lower Primary School

5420 Tarwin Valley Primary School

3581 The Lake Primary School

5294 Thomas Mitchell Primary School

5479 Timbarra Primary School

4680 Morwell (Tobruk Street) Primary School

1225 Tooborac Primary School

856 Toongabbie Primary School

2253 Toora Primary School

3368 Torquay P-9 College

621 Tylden Primary School

3145 Upper Sandy Creek Primary School

1022 Vermont Primary School

664 Wallan Primary School

3345 Wallington Primary School

2806 Walwa Primary School

3892 Wandin North Primary School

3709 Wantirna Primary School

4582 Wantirna South Primary School

1485 Warburton Primary School

4988 Watsonia North Primary School

6262 Wedderburn College

5157 Weeden Heights Primary School

4041 Welton Primary School

652 Winters Flat Primary School

1870 Winton Primary School

5042 Wodonga South Primary School

1176 Woodside Primary School

688 Woolsthorpe Primary School

1103 Yackandandah Primary School

4219 Yarra Road Primary School

Italian (209 schools)

4220 Aberfeldie Primary School

1181 Albert Park Primary School

4855 Albion North Primary School

3599 Alphington Primary School

8857 Altona College

4931 Altona North Primary School

5104 Andersons Creek Primary School

5184 Apollo Parkways Primary School

5064 Ardeer South Primary School

2634 Armadale Primary School

1666 Arthurs Creek Primary School

2608 Ascot Vale Primary School

4317 Ashburton Primary School

5536 Athol Road Primary School

4812 Avondale Primary School

5315 Baden Powell P-9 College

8814 Baimbridge College

1435 Ballan Primary School

1026 Balwyn Primary School

8800 Bayside P-12 College

5039 Bayswater West Primary School

4309 Bell Primary School

319 Bellbrae Primary School

5453 Belle Vue Park Primary School

26 Belmont Primary School

4318 Bentleigh West Primary School

4813 Beverley Hills Primary School

5048 Birmingham Primary School

723 Birregurra Primary School

4860 Blackburn Lake Primary School

2923 Blackburn Primary School

5288 Boroondara Park Primary School

5038 Brandon Park Primary School

1542 Brighton Primary School

3179 Brunswick East Primary School

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Appendix 2: Languages by primary schools 85

3585 Brunswick North Primary School

2743 Brunswick South Primary School

4304 Brunswick South West Primary School

1905 Buchan Primary School

1288 Bullarto Primary School

1434 Cairnlea Park Primary School

4170 Camberwell South Primary School

5312 Cambridge Primary School

3572 Canterbury Primary School

4263 Cardross Primary School

1252 Carlton North Primary School

2897 Carnegie Primary School

4315 Caulfield South Primary School

1602 Ceres Primary School

5231 Chalcot Lodge Primary School

4754 Cheltenham East Primary School

84 Cheltenham Primary School

2061 Chilwell Primary School

1362 Christmas Hills Primary School

4543 Coburg North Primary School

484 Coburg Primary School

3941 Coburg West Primary School

5200 Darley Primary School

1609 Daylesford Primary School

1003 Diamond Creek Primary School

2479 Diggers Rest Primary School

5019 Donburn Primary School

4961 Donvale Primary School

945 Doreen Primary School

1848 Drummond Primary School

3931 Eildon Primary School

220 Elphinstone Primary School

4212 Eltham North Primary School

4015 Essendon North Primary School

1706 Euroa Primary School

5399 Everton Primary School

3590 Fawkner Primary School

1490 Fitzroy North Primary School

250 Flemington Primary School

253 Footscray Primary School

3890 Footscray West Primary School

4919 Fyans Park Primary School

5066 Gladesville Primary School

5007 Gladstone Park Primary School

4914 Glen Devon Primary School

5260 Glen Katherine Primary School

1508 Glenferrie Primary School

3696 Grahamvale Primary School

283 Grovedale Primary School

295 Hamilton (Gray Street) Primary School

4804 Hamlyn Banks Primary School

4055 Hartwell Primary School

767 Hepburn Primary School

304 Highton Primary School

4926 Horsham North Primary School

298 Horsham Primary School

3939 Hurstbridge Primary School

4896 Invergordon Primary School

5152 Iramoo Primary School

4386 Ivanhoe East Primary School

2436 Ivanhoe Primary School

2105 Kangaroo Ground Primary School

5539 Keilor Views Primary School

5542 Keilor Views Primary School

3161 Kew East Primary School

1366 Kialla Central Primary School

1727 Kialla West Primary School

4845 Kingsbury Primary School

5101 Kingston Heath Primary School

3988 Kingsville Primary School

2629 Koo Wee Rup Primary School

3077 Korumburra Primary School

4863 Laburnum Primary School

5035 Lalor North Primary School

5257 Langwarrin Park Primary School

3531 Langwarrin Primary School

769 Lara Lake Primary School

386 Learmonth Primary School

5297 Mackellar Primary School

2586 Malvern Primary School

430 Melton Primary School

4955 Mentone Park Primary School

488 Mernda Primary School

3110 Merri Creek Primary School

737 Milawa Primary School

5325 Mill Park Heights Primary School

4969 Milleara Primary School

3265 Monbulk Primary School

3943 Mont Albert Primary School

4112 Montmorency Primary School

4876 Moomba Park Primary School

3987 Moonee Ponds Central School

1111 Moorabbin Primary School

1612 Mooroopna North Primary School

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86 Appendix 2: Languages by primary school

4117 Moriac Primary School

5002 Mossfiel Primary School

5380 Mount Duneed Regional Primary School

3642 Mount Evelyn Primary School

415 Mount Macedon Primary School

8853 Mount Ridley P-12 College

4905 Mountain Gate Primary School

4886 Mullum Primary School

8873 Myrtleford P-12 College

2060 Nathalia Primary School

1402 North Melbourne Primary School

1401 Northcote Primary School

3805 Orrvale Primary School

1134 Panton Hill Primary School

4854 Park Orchards Primary School

4843 Parktone Primary School

4731 Pascoe Vale North Primary School

3081 Pascoe Vale Primary School

4704 Pascoe Vale South Primary School

5190 Patterson Lakes Primary School

4937 Pembroke Primary School

3806 Penders Grove Primary School

5369 Pentland Primary School

4874 Pinewood Primary School

1144 Porepunkah Primary School

4764 Preston North East Primary School

1494 Preston Primary School

3885 Preston West Primary School

2955 Princes Hill Primary School

4057 Red Cliffs Primary School

6249 Red Hill Consolidated School

4686 Reservoir East Primary School

3960 Reservoir Primary School

4711 Reservoir West Primary School

4087 Ripponlea Primary School

4867 Rollins Primary School

4568 Rosanna Primary School

5443 Roxburgh Homestead Primary School

5493 Roxburgh Rise Primary School

267 Sandringham Primary School

5337 Seabrook Primary School

4742 Shepparton (Bourchier Street) Primary School

4666 Shepparton (St Georges Road) Primary School

1713 Shepparton East Primary School

4910 Southmoor Primary School

3146 Spensley Street Primary School

5118 St Albans Meadows Primary School

5463 Strathaird Primary School

3947 Strathewen Primary School

5438 Streeton Primary School

1002 Sunbury Primary School

5526 Sunshine Harvester Primary School

2778 Surrey Hills Primary School

5004 Templestowe Heights Primary School

4985 Templestowe Valley Primary School

3889 Thornbury Primary School

1503 Tooradin Primary School

1588 Trentham District Primary School

4687 Tucker Road Bentleigh Primary School

1771 Undera Primary School

3139 Wales Street Primary School

5055 Wallarano Primary School

275 Wandiligong Primary School

643 Wangaratta Primary School

4988 Watsonia North Primary School

4838 Watsonia Primary School

3841 Wattle Park Primary School

5206 Wedge Park Primary School

4788 Wembley Primary School

4158 Westbreen Primary School

5365 Westgrove Primary School

982 Westmeadows Primary School

5530 Whitehorse Primary School

5397 Whitfield District Primary School

1373 Whorouly Primary School

1183 Williamstown Primary School

5319 Woodlands Primary School

691 Yandoit Primary School

2054 Yarrambat Primary School

2832 Yarraville West Primary School

Japanese (179 schools)

912 Alexandra Primary School

1091 Alfredton Primary School

8857 Altona College

3923 Altona Primary School

5207 Appin Park Primary School

4193 Aspendale Primary School

3309 Badger Creek Primary School

754 Bairnsdale Primary School

1698 Balnarring Primary School

4691 Bandiana Primary School

1574 Barwon Heads Primary School

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Appendix 2: Languages by primary schools 87

8800 Bayside P-12 College

4803 Beaumaris North Primary School

3899 Beaumaris Primary School

3551 Belgrave South Primary School

5488 Benton Junior College

5305 Berwick Fields Primary School

8832 Birchip P-12 School

2043 Black Hill Primary School

3612 Bona Vista Primary School

4717 Box Hill North Primary School

4341 Briar Hill Primary School

776 Bright P-12 College

2048 Brighton Beach Primary School

2017 Buln Buln Primary School

1270 Buninyong Primary School

2229 Bunyip Primary School

3613 Carrum Downs Primary School

5489 Caulfield Primary School

4314 Chatham Primary School

84 Cheltenham Primary School

3279 Chum Creek Primary School

734 Clayton North Primary School

1552 Clunes Primary School

3535 Cockatoo Primary School

6211 Cohuna Consolidated School

4770 Craigieburn Primary School

4879 Croydon West Primary School

105 Cudgee Primary School

3907 Currawa Primary School

2319 Darnum Primary School

1035 Dartmoor Primary School

4996 Derinya Primary School

5375 Derrinallum P-12 College

1527 Dookie Primary School

184 Dromana Primary School

1473 Drummartin Primary School

2189 Ellinbank Primary School

959 Elmhurst Primary School

4897 Eltham East Primary School

3381 Emerald Primary School

483 Essendon Primary School

4718 Ferntree Gully North Primary School

3228 Ferny Creek Primary School

4815 Frankston Heights Primary School

1464 Frankston Primary School

3897 Gardenvale Primary School

2506 Gembrook Primary School

5436 Glen Waverley South Primary School

4809 Glenroy West Primary School

5381 Grasmere Primary School

2062 Greensborough Primary School

2956 Gruyere Primary School

1076 Haddon Primary School

849 Healesville Primary School

4819 Heathmont East Primary School

294 Heidelberg Primary School

4716 Huntingdale Primary School

814 Jamieson Primary School

2988 Jeparit Primary School

5121 Kalinda Primary School

5418 Kananook Primary School

4922 Karingal Primary School

2069 Katamatite Primary School

5082 Kent Park Primary School

4816 Kerrimuir Primary School

5236 Kings Park Primary School

4845 Kingsbury Primary School

5106 Kingswood Primary School

863 Lal Lal Primary School

1862 Landsborough Primary School

2599 Launching Place Primary School

1386 Lethbridge Primary School

876 Lilydale Primary School

2707 Longwood Primary School

1231 Lucknow Primary School

3620 Macclesfield Primary School

3620 Macclesfield Primary School

1604 Malvern Central School

4669 Malvern Valley Primary School

5009 Manchester Primary School

5185 Mandama Primary School

2457 Menzies Creek Primary School

8886 Merbein P-10 College

5441 Millwarra Primary School

5336 Monmia Primary School

1683 Moonambel Primary School

2901 Moonee Ponds West Primary School

2037 Mount Blowhard Primary School

5171 Mount Martha Primary School

1436 Mount Pleasant Primary School

8853 Mount Ridley P-12 College

3432 Mount Waverley Primary School

5139 Movelle Primary School

3449 Murrumbeena Primary School

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88 Appendix 2: Languages by primary school

487 Myrniong Primary School

2432 Neerim South Primary School

4670 Newborough East Primary School

4665 Newport Gardens Primary School

5410 Niddrie Primary School

2712 Nilma Primary School

3618 Norris Bank Primary School

1652 Nullawarre and District Primary School

4226 Nungurner Primary School

4721 Oak Park Primary School

1601 Oakleigh Primary School

4823 Oakleigh South Primary School

4780 Overport Primary School

1079 Panmure Primary School

5367 Peranbin Primary College

695 Ballarat (Pleasant Street) Primary School

2859 Pomonal Primary School

2959 Research Primary School

5419 Roberts McCubbin Primary School

5087 Rosewood Downs Primary School

4916 Ruskin Park Primary School

522 Rutherglen Primary School

545 Sale Primary School

4429 Sandringham East Primary School

4685 Selby Primary School

1222 Skye Primary School

4641 Solway Primary School

1583 Springhurst Primary School

1479 St Kilda Primary School

4821 Strathmore North Primary School

4832 Sussex Heights Primary School

1631 Swan Reach Primary School

3559 Sydenham - Hillside Primary School

4924 Syndal South Primary School

2544 Taggerty Primary School

3356 Tecoma Primary School

5129 Templestowe Park Primary School

5173 The Patch Primary School

1371 Thornton Primary School

6260 Timboon P-12 School

5075 Tinternvale Primary School

3237 Toolangi Primary School

1150 Trawalla Primary School

4852 Tullamarine Primary School

3926 Upper Ferntree Gully Primary School

1244 Upper Plenty Primary School

2103 Urquhart Park Primary School

4778 Valkstone Primary School

4892 Viewbank Primary School

5401 Waaia Yalca South Primary School

3139 Wales Street Primary School

4642 Wangaratta West Primary School

1334 Warracknabeal Primary School

12 Warrandyte Primary School

3476 Warranwood Primary School

1743 Warrnambool Primary School

5105 Waverley Meadows Primary School

2662 Willaura Primary School

1409 Williamstown North Primary School

2015 Winchelsea Primary School

1856 Windermere Primary School

5440 Woady Yaloak Primary School

37 Wodonga Primary School

4814 Wodonga West Primary School

3241 Wonga Park Primary School

647 Woodend Primary School

5049 Woodville Primary School

4989 Wooranna Park Primary School

2518 Wurruk Primary School

3216 Yarra Junction Primary School

4807 Yarraman Oaks Primary School

4761 Yarrunga Primary School

1034 Yering Primary School

4359 Zeerust Primary School

Karen (2 schools)

5343 Thomas Chirnside Primary School

649 Werribee Primary School

Korean (1 school) 3074 Ormond Primary School

Macedonian (2 schools) 5035 Lalor North Primary School

824 Preston South Primary School

Maori (2 schools)

5043 Aldercourt Primary School

5376 Mortlake P–12 College

Spanish (14 schools)

4025 Ascot Vale West Primary School

1184 Boneo Primary School

1960 Bungaree Primary School

5483 Caroline Springs College

1362 Christmas Hills Primary School

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Appendix 2: Languages by primary schools 89

4384 Clayton South Primary School

3754 Hampton Primary School

1098 Hastings Primary School

1951 Jindivick Primary School

4990 Knox Park Primary School

4905 Mountain Gate Primary School

5131 Regency Park Primary School

4398 Geelong (Tate Street) Primary School

4989 Wooranna Park Primary School

Swahili (1 school)

4905 Mountain Gate Primary School

Thai (1 school)

5520 Yuille Park P-8 Community College

Turkish (5 schools)

484 Coburg Primary School

4952 Coolaroo South Primary School

4900 Dallas Primary School

5227 Meadow Heights Primary School

4993 Upfield Primary School

Vietnamese (7 schools)

1886 Abbotsford Primary School

5179 Albanvale Primary School

253 Footscray Primary School

253 Footscray Primary School

5050 Glengala/Sunshine West Primary School

5044 Richmond West Primary School

4745 Sunshine North Primary School

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90 Appendix 3: Languages by secondary colleges

Appendix 3: List of Secondary Colleges by Languages, 2010

Arabic (5 schools)

8800 Bayside P-12 College

8807 Brunswick Secondary College

8227 Pascoe Vale Girls Secondary College

8240 Preston Girls Secondary College

8383 Thomastown Secondary College

Auslan (6 schools)

7595 Bendigo Senior Secondary College

7837 Bendigo South East 7-10 Secondary College

8890 Charles La Trobe College

8724 Forest Hill College

8848 Manor Lakes P-12 College

8320 Shepparton High School

Chinese (Mandarin) (42 schools)

8874 Alkira Secondary College

8743 Ashwood Secondary College

8777 Bacchus Marsh College

7550 Balwyn High School

7595 Bendigo Senior Secondary College

7837 Bendigo South East 7-10 Secondary College

7635 Box Hill High School

7650 Brighton Secondary College

8807 Brunswick Secondary College

7680 Camberwell High School

6212 Collingwood College

7776 Doncaster Secondary College

7773 East Doncaster Secondary College

7810 Elwood College

8806 Essendon East Keilor District College

8724 Forest Hill College

8704 Glen Eira College

8808 Glen Waverley Secondary College

5434 Hawkesdale P-12 College

8818 Horsham College

8867 Keysborough Secondary College

7954 Koonung Secondary College

8716 Kurnai College

8017 Maroondah Secondary College

8022 Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College

8819 Melbourne Girls College

7267 Mount Clear College

8102 Mount Eliza Secondary College

8105 Mount Waverley Secondary College

8180 Northcote High School

8865 Nossal High School

8240 Preston Girls Secondary College

8708 Reservoir District Secondary College

6252 Sherbrooke Community School

8731 Stawell Secondary College

8345 Strathmore Secondary College

8797 Thornbury High School

8891 Victoria University Secondary College

8428 Wantirna College

8465 Werribee Secondary College

8470 Westall Secondary College

8500 Yea High School

French (85 schools)

8753 Ararat Community College Secondary

8743 Ashwood Secondary College

8872 Balmoral P-12 Community College

7550 Balwyn High School

8250 Bellarine Secondary College

7595 Bendigo Senior Secondary College

7610 Blackburn High School

7625 Boort Secondary College

7650 Brighton Secondary College

7680 Camberwell High School

7690 Canterbury Girls Secondary College

5435 Carwatha P-12 College

8824 Castlemaine Secondary College

8864 Colac Secondary College

7205 Crusoe 7-10 Secondary College

8858 Dandenong High School

7775 Donald High School

7776 Doncaster Secondary College

7785 Drouin Secondary College

7790 Eaglehawk Secondary College

7805 Eltham High School

7810 Elwood College

8724 Forest Hill College

7850 Frankston High School

7857 Gisborne Secondary College

7858 Gladstone Park Secondary College

8704 Glen Eira College

8808 Glen Waverley Secondary College

8709 Hampton Park Secondary College

7910 Heywood District Secondary College

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7918 Highvale Secondary College

7198 Irymple Secondary College

8856 John Monash Science School

7950 Kew High School

8867 Keysborough Secondary College

7954 Koonung Secondary College

7965 Kyabram P-12 College

7970 Kyneton Secondary College

854 Lake Bolac College

7985 Lalor Secondary College

6231 Lavers Hill P-12 College

7995 Lilydale High School

8000 Lyndale Secondary College

8135 Mac Robertson Girls High School

8005 Maffra Secondary College

3515 Mallacoota P-12 College

8010 Mansfield Secondary College

8017 Maroondah Secondary College

8022 Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College

8125 Mckinnon Secondary College

8819 Melbourne Girls College

8025 Melbourne High School

8030 Mentone Girls Secondary College

8809 Monterey Secondary College

8068 Montmorency Secondary College

8075 Mordialloc College

8180 Northcote High School

8185 Norwood Secondary College

8865 Nossal High School

8223 Pakenham Secondary College

8225 Parkdale Secondary College

8227 Pascoe Vale Girls Secondary College

8245 Princes Hill Secondary College

8270 Ringwood Secondary College

8407 Roxburgh College

8300 Rutherglen High School

8739 Sandringham College

8307 Scoresby Secondary College

7845 South Gippsland Secondary College

8330 St Albans Secondary College

8335 St Arnaud Secondary College

7247 Staughton College

7366 Swinburne Senior Secondary College

6236 Terang College

8405 University High School

8415 Upwey High School

8420 Vermont Secondary College

7384 Victorian College Of The Arts Secondary School

8811 Warrnambool College

7405 Weeroona College Bendigo

8462 Wellington Secondary College

8470 Westall Secondary College

8820 Western Heights Secondary College

8474 Wheelers Hill Secondary College

8475 Williamstown High School

German (62 schools)

8466 Bairnsdale Secondary College

7540 Ballarat High School

7560 Bayswater Secondary College

7595 Bendigo Senior Secondary College

7837 Bendigo South East 7-10 Secondary College

7603 Berwick Secondary College

7610 Blackburn High School

7048 Boronia Heights College

7635 Box Hill High School

7647 Brentwood Secondary College

776 Bright P-12 College

7670 Buckley Park College

7874 Bundoora Secondary College

8824 Castlemaine Secondary College

7747 Cranbourne Secondary College

7755 Croydon Secondary College

7205 Crusoe 7-10 Secondary College

7770 Dimboola Memorial Secondary College

6217 East Loddon P-12 College

5432 Edenhope College

8871 Endeavour Hills Secondary College

7823 Fairhills High School

8724 Forest Hill College

8870 Fountain Gate Secondary College

7855 Geelong High School

8869 Gleneagles Secondary College

8816 Heathmont College

7918 Highvale Secondary College

7920 Hopetoun Secondary College

8818 Horsham College

7198 Irymple Secondary College

8421 Kambrya College

8716 Kurnai College

7965 Kyabram P-12 College

8135 Mac Robertson Girls High School

6242 Macleod College

8125 McKinnon Secondary College

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8025 Melbourne High School

8027 Melton Secondary College

8775 Mill Park Secondary College

8050 Mirboo North Secondary College

8065 Monbulk College

8071 Mooroolbark College

8102 Mount Eliza Secondary College

8105 Mount Waverley Secondary College

8744 Mullauna Secondary College

1549 Murtoa College

8813 Noble Park Secondary College

7856 North Geelong Secondary College

8865 Nossal High School

8210 Oberon High School

8725 Patterson River Secondary College

8255 Rainbow Secondary College

7325 Sebastopol College

8731 Stawell Secondary College

8803 Traralgon College

8405 University High School

8410 Upper Yarra Secondary College

8415 Upwey High School

8420 Vermont Secondary College

8812 Viewbank College

8425 Wangaratta High School

Greek (12 schools)

7550 Balwyn High School

7255 Bentleigh Secondary College

7934 Hawthorn Secondary College

7198 Irymple Secondary College

7985 Lalor Secondary College

8180 Northcote High School

8708 Reservoir District Secondary College

8895 Ruthven Secondary College

8801 South Oakleigh Secondary College

8345 Strathmore Secondary College

8797 Thornbury High School

8470 Westall Secondary College

Indonesian (97 schools)

7505 Alexandra Secondary College

6203 Apollo Bay P-12 College

8828 Ballarat Secondary College

7575 Beechworth Secondary College

8250 Bellarine Secondary College

7585 Belmont High School

8810 Benalla College

7595 Bendigo Senior Secondary College

7837 Bendigo South East 7-10 Secondary College

7255 Bentleigh Secondary College

7603 Berwick Secondary College

7680 Camberwell High School

5483 Caroline Springs College

5486 Carranballac P-9 College

7695 Casterton Secondary College

8824 Castlemaine Secondary College

7250 Chaffey Secondary College

8830 Charlton College

8843 Corryong College

8705 Craigieburn Secondary College

7205 Crusoe 7-10 Secondary College

7122 Dromana Secondary College

7790 Eaglehawk Secondary College

8855 Echuca College

8722 Elisabeth Murdoch College

7805 Eltham High School

8870 Fountain Gate Secondary College

7857 Gisborne Secondary College

8869 Gleneagles Secondary College

8893 Glenroy College

6223 Goroke P-12 College

7183 Grovedale College

8816 Heathmont College

7198 Irymple Secondary College

7945 Kerang Tech High School

8716 Kurnai College

7965 Kyabram P-12 College

7970 Kyneton Secondary College

8841 Lara Secondary College

8745 Leongatha Secondary College

7219 Lilydale Heights College

7995 Lilydale High School

2162 Lorne-Aireys Inlet P-12 College

8821 Lowanna College

7108 Lyndhurst Secondary College

8135 Mac Robertson Girls High School

8005 Maffra Secondary College

8010 Mansfield Secondary College

8845 Maryborough Education Centre

8022 Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College

8025 Melbourne High School

8886 Merbein P-10 College

8045 Mildura Senior College

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Appendix 3: Languages by secondary colleges 93

8073 Mooroopna Secondary College

8804 Mornington Secondary College

8100 Mount Beauty Secondary College

8102 Mount Eliza Secondary College

7028 Mount Erin Secondary College

8744 Mullauna Secondary College

8839 Narre Warren South P-12 College

8140 Nathalia Secondary College

8151 Newcomb Secondary College

8833 Nhill College

8185 Norwood Secondary College

8865 Nossal High School

8210 Oberon High School

8215 Orbost Secondary College

8226 Parkwood Secondary College

8725 Patterson River Secondary College

4159 Point Cook P-9 College

8798 Portland Secondary College

1712 Pyramid Hill College

8260 Red Cliffs Secondary College

8270 Ringwood Secondary College

8280 Rochester Secondary College

8290 Rosebud Secondary College

8734 Rowville Secondary College

8739 Sandringham College

8884 Seymour P-12 College

8875 Somerville Secondary College

8370 Tallangatta Secondary College

8797 Thornbury High School

3368 Torquay P-9 College

8395 Trafalgar High School

8420 Vermont Secondary College

8791 Wallan Secondary College

8428 Wantirna College

8827 Warragul Regional College

8811 Warrnambool College

6262 Wedderburn College

7405 Weeroona College Bendigo

7893 Western Port Secondary College

8474 Wheelers Hill Secondary College

8475 Williamstown High School

8851 Wodonga Middle Years College

8736 Wonthaggi Secondary College

8500 Yea High School

Italian (73 schools)

8857 Altona College

5315 Baden Powell P-9 College

8814 Baimbridge College

8800 Bayside P-12 College

7585 Belmont High School

8807 Brunswick Secondary College

7250 Chaffey Secondary College

7720 Cheltenham Secondary College

8799 Copperfield College

8705 Craigieburn Secondary College

7115 Daylesford Secondary College

7763 Debney Park Secondary College

8746 Diamond Valley College

7776 Doncaster Secondary College

7773 East Doncaster Secondary College

8722 Elisabeth Murdoch College

7813 Epping Secondary College

8806 Essendon East Keilor District College

8742 Fitzroy High School

8836 Footscray City College

7402 Galvin Park Secondary College

7841 Gilmore College For Girls

7858 Gladstone Park Secondary College

8808 Glen Waverley Secondary College

8750 Greensborough Secondary College

8710 Hoppers Crossing Secondary College

7198 Irymple Secondary College

8894 John Fawkner College

7942 Kealba Secondary College

8715 Keilor Downs Secondary College

7950 Kew High School

7955 Koo Wee Rup Secondary College

7960 Korumburra Secondary College

8718 Kurunjang Secondary College

7986 Lalor North Secondary College

7985 Lalor Secondary College

8821 Lowanna College

8000 Lyndale Secondary College

3515 Mallacoota P-12 College

7331 Mc Guire College

8045 Mildura Senior College

8775 Mill Park Secondary College

3987 Moonee Ponds Central School

8073 Mooroopna Secondary College

8853 Mount Ridley P-12 College

8873 Myrtleford P-12 College

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94 Appendix 3: Languages by secondary colleges

8180 Northcote High School

8227 Pascoe Vale Girls Secondary College

8815 Pembroke Secondary College

8240 Preston Girls Secondary College

8245 Princes Hill Secondary College

8708 Reservoir District Secondary College

7275 Rosehill Secondary College

8734 Rowville Secondary College

8407 Roxburgh College

8895 Ruthven Secondary College

8330 St Albans Secondary College

8730 St Helena Secondary College

8345 Strathmore Secondary College

8350 Sunbury College

8723 Sunbury Downs Secondary College

8790 Sunshine College

8787 Taylors Lakes Secondary College

8823 Templestowe College

8783 The Grange P-12 College

8383 Thomastown Secondary College

8797 Thornbury High School

8891 Victoria University Secondary College

8422 Wanganui Park Secondary College

8425 Wangaratta High School

8437 Warrandyte High School

8465 Werribee Secondary College

8470 Westall Secondary College

Japanese (90 schools)

7505 Alexandra Secondary College

8857 Altona College

8466 Bairnsdale Secondary College

7540 Ballarat High School

8800 Bayside P-12 College

7565 Beaufort Secondary College

7255 Bentleigh Secondary College

8832 Birchip P-12 School

7395 Brauer Secondary College

7647 Brentwood Secondary College

776 Bright P-12 College

7650 Brighton Secondary College

7655 Broadford Secondary College

7670 Buckley Park College

7690 Canterbury Girls Secondary College

8423 Carrum Downs Secondary College

7725 Cobram Secondary College

7735 Cohuna Secondary College

8799 Copperfield College

8858 Dandenong High School

7122 Dromana Secondary College

7785 Drouin Secondary College

7810 Elwood College

8707 Emerald Secondary College

8806 Essendon East Keilor District College

7820 Euroa Secondary College

7823 Fairhills High School

8836 Footscray City College

7850 Frankston High School

7855 Geelong High School

7857 Gisborne Secondary College

7183 Grovedale College

7900 Healesville High School

8856 John Monash Science School

8421 Kambrya College

8715 Keilor Downs Secondary College

7950 Kew High School

7954 Koonung Secondary College

7965 Kyabram P-12 College

8745 Leongatha Secondary College

7219 Lilydale Heights College

8000 Lyndale Secondary College

8135 Mac Robertson Girls High School

8005 Maffra Secondary College

1604 Malvern Central School

8017 Maroondah Secondary College

8835 Mcclelland Secondary College

8025 Melbourne High School

8027 Melton Secondary College

8030 Mentone Girls Secondary College

8886 Merbein P-10 College

8065 Monbulk College

8068 Montmorency Secondary College

8804 Mornington Secondary College

7267 Mount Clear College

8853 Mount Ridley P-12 College

8105 Mount Waverley Secondary College

8813 Noble Park Secondary College

8175 Norlane High School

8865 Nossal High School

8210 Oberon High School

8225 Parkdale Secondary College

8226 Parkwood Secondary College

8227 Pascoe Vale Girls Secondary College

8290 Rosebud Secondary College

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Appendix 3: Languages by secondary colleges 95

7275 Rosehill Secondary College

8834 Sale College

8739 Sandringham College

8320 Shepparton High School

8801 South Oakleigh Secondary College

8330 St Albans Secondary College

8345 Strathmore Secondary College

8350 Sunbury College

8787 Taylors Lakes Secondary College

6260 Timboon P-12 School

8410 Upper Yarra Secondary College

8415 Upwey High School

7384 Victorian College Of The Arts Secondary School

8812 Viewbank College

8422 Wanganui Park Secondary College

8425 Wangaratta High School

8430 Warracknabeal Secondary College

8827 Warragul Regional College

8811 Warrnambool College

8465 Werribee Secondary College

8820 Western Heights Secondary College

8475 Williamstown High School

8851 Wodonga Middle Years College

8480 Wodonga Senior Secondary College

8736 Wonthaggi Secondary College

Khmer (1 school)

8470 Westall Secondary College

Latin (2 schools)

8858 Dandenong High School

8405 University High School

Macedonian (3 schools)

7813 Epping Secondary College

7985 Lalor Secondary College

8383 Thomastown Secondary College

Maori (1 school)

5376 Mortlake P-12 College

Spanish (4 schools)

5483 Caroline Springs College

8836 Footscray City College

8428 Wantirna College

8465 Werribee Secondary College

Thai (1 school)

5520 Yuille Park P-8 Community College

Turkish (1 school) 8407 Roxburgh Secondary College

Vietnamese (7 schools)

7645 Braybrook College

7841 Gilmore College For Girls

8330 St Albans Secondary College

8790 Sunshine College

8383 Thomastown Secondary College

8891 Victoria University Secondary College

8470 Westall Secondary College

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96 Appendix 4: Primary schools by language

Appendix 4: Primary Schools and Languages Offered, 2010

School no. School name Language 1886 Abbotsford Primary School Chinese (Mandarin), Vietnamese

4220 Aberfeldie Primary School Italian

4169 Airly Primary School Auslan

5179 Albanvale Primary School Vietnamese

5427 Albany Rise Primary School Indonesian

1181 Albert Park Primary School Italian

1 Alberton Primary School Indonesian

4855 Albion North Primary School Italian

5043 Aldercourt Primary School Maori

912 Alexandra Primary School Japanese

1091 Alfredton Primary School Japanese

3599 Alphington Primary School Italian

8857 Altona College (interim name) Italian, Japanese

4931 Altona North Primary School Italian

3923 Altona Primary School Japanese

6201 Alvie Consolidated School Chinese (Mandarin)

1637 Amphitheatre Primary School French

5428 Amsleigh Park Primary School German

5104 Andersons Creek Primary School Italian

4332 Anglesea Primary School Indonesian

4844 Antonio Park Primary School Indonesian

6203 Apollo Bay P-12 College Indonesian

5184 Apollo Parkways Primary School Italian

5207 Appin Park Primary School Japanese

4995 Ararat North Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

800 Ararat Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

4720 Ararat West Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

5064 Ardeer South Primary School Italian

2634 Armadale Primary School Italian

1666 Arthurs Creek Primary School Italian

2608 Ascot Vale Primary School Italian

4025 Ascot Vale West Primary School Spanish

4317 Ashburton Primary School Italian

1492 Ashby Primary School German

5301 Aspendale Gardens Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

4193 Aspendale Primary School Japanese

5536 Athol Road Primary School (interim name) Italian

2948 Auburn Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

4183 Auburn South Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

8 Avenel Primary School French

4 Avoca Primary School French

4812 Avondale Primary School Italian

1008 Axedale Primary School Indonesian

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School no. School name Language 28 Bacchus Marsh Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

5315 Baden Powell P-9 College Italian

3309 Badger Creek Primary School Japanese

8814 Baimbridge College Italian

754 Bairnsdale Primary School Japanese

4725 Bairnsdale West Primary School Auslan

5005 Ballam Park Primary School Indonesian

1435 Ballan Primary School Italian

33 Ballarat (Dana Street) Primary School Indonesian

695 Ballarat (Pleasant Street) Primary School Japanese

4690 Ballarat North Primary School French

3787 Balliang East Primary School Auslan

8872 Balmoral P-12 Community College (interim name)

French

1698 Balnarring Primary School Japanese

4638 Balwyn North Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

1026 Balwyn Primary School Italian

4691 Bandiana Primary School Japanese

2222 Baranduda Primary School French

1687 Baringhup Primary School Indonesian

1574 Barwon Heads Primary School Japanese

8800 Bayside P-12 College Japanese, Arabic, Italian

4143 Bayswater North Primary School German

2163 Bayswater Primary School German

4973 Bayswater South Primary School German

5039 Bayswater West Primary School Italian

3033 Beaconsfield Primary School German

2560 Beaconsfield Upper Primary School Indonesian

749 Bealiba Primary School Indonesian

4803 Beaumaris North Primary School Japanese

3899 Beaumaris Primary School Japanese

1560 Beechworth Primary School Indonesian

3551 Belgrave South Primary School Japanese

4309 Bell Primary School Italian

4873 Bellaire Primary School French

319 Bellbrae Primary School Italian

5254 Bellbridge Primary School Indonesian

5453 Belle Vue Park Primary School Italian

4733 Belle Vue Primary School Greek

26 Belmont Primary School Italian

2256 Benalla East Primary School Indonesian

31 Benalla Primary School Indonesian

4850 Benalla West Primary School German

1267 Bendigo North Primary School Indonesian

4318 Bentleigh West Primary School Italian

5488 Benton Junior College Japanese

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98 Appendix 4: Primary schools by language

School no. School name Language 5305 Berwick Fields Primary School Japanese

5213 Berwick Lodge Primary School Indonesian

40 Berwick Primary School German

4813 Beverley Hills Primary School Chinese (Mandarin), Italian

1551 Big Hill Primary School French

5193 Billanook Primary School German

5011 Bimbadeen Heights Primary School German

8832 Birchip P-12 School Japanese

5048 Birmingham Primary School Italian

4991 Birralee Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

723 Birregurra Primary School Italian

3933 Bittern Primary School Indonesian

2043 Black Hill Primary School Japanese

3631 Black Rock Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

4860 Blackburn Lake Primary School Italian

2923 Blackburn Primary School Italian

1070 Bolinda Primary School French

3612 Bona Vista Primary School Japanese

4798 Bonbeach Primary School Indonesian

1184 Boneo Primary School Spanish, German

1796 Boort Primary School Indonesian

4967 Boronia Heights Primary School German

4081 Boronia Primary School German

5288 Boroondara Park Primary School Italian

4717 Box Hill North Primary School Japanese

5038 Brandon Park Primary School Italian

5377 Branxholme & Wallacedale Community School

German

4341 Briar Hill Primary School Japanese

1097 Bridgewater Primary School Indonesian

776 Bright P-12 College Japanese, German

2048 Brighton Beach Primary School Japanese

1542 Brighton Primary School Italian

1125 Broadford Primary School Auslan

3179 Brunswick East Primary School Italian

3585 Brunswick North Primary School Italian

2743 Brunswick South Primary School Italian

4304 Brunswick South West Primary School Italian

2072 Buangor Primary School French

1905 Buchan Primary School Italian

1288 Bullarto Primary School Italian

2017 Buln Buln Primary School Japanese

5228 Bundarra Primary School French

4944 Bundoora Primary School German

1960 Bungaree Primary School Spanish

1270 Buninyong Primary School Japanese

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Appendix 4: Primary schools by language 99

School no. School name Language 2229 Bunyip Primary School Japanese

454 Burwood East Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

4932 Burwood Heights Primary School French

1434 Cairnlea Park Primary School Italian

888 Camberwell Primary School French

4170 Camberwell South Primary School Italian

5312 Cambridge Primary School Italian

5111 Camelot Rise Primary School French

1976 Camp Hill Primary School Indonesian

5034 Campbellfield Heights Primary School Arabic

120 Campbells Creek Primary School Indonesian

3572 Canterbury Primary School Italian

3689 Cardinia Primary School Auslan

4263 Cardross Primary School Italian

1030 Carisbrook Primary School Indonesian

3497 Carlisle River Primary School Indonesian

2605 Carlton Gardens Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

1252 Carlton North Primary School Italian

2897 Carnegie Primary School Italian

5483 Caroline Springs College Indonesian, Spanish

5486 Carranballac P-9 College Indonesian

1704 Carraragarmungee Primary School Indonesian

5426 Carrington Primary School French

3613 Carrum Downs Primary School Japanese

3385 Carrum Primary School German

5435 Carwatha P-12 College French

2058 Casterton Primary School Indonesian

2051 Castlemaine North Primary School Indonesian

119 Castlemaine Primary School French

3820 Caulfield Junior College French

5489 Caulfield Primary School Japanese

4315 Caulfield South Primary School Italian

116 Cavendish Primary School German

1602 Ceres Primary School Italian

5231 Chalcot Lodge Primary School Italian

5533 Chandler Park Primary School (interim name)

French

8830 Charlton College Indonesian

4314 Chatham Primary School Japanese

3729 Chelsea Primary School Indonesian

4754 Cheltenham East Primary School Italian

84 Cheltenham Primary School Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese

1054 Chewton Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

327 Chiltern Primary School French

2061 Chilwell Primary School Italian

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100 Appendix 4: Primary schools by language

School no. School name Language 1362 Christmas Hills Primary School Spanish

3279 Chum Creek Primary School Auslan, Japanese

5117 Churchill North Primary School German

3336 Clarinda Primary School Greek

3035 Clarkefield Primary School French

734 Clayton North Primary School Japanese

4384 Clayton South Primary School Spanish

1360 Clifton Hill Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

1552 Clunes Primary School Japanese

3664 Clyde Primary School Indonesian

4712 Coatesville Primary School French

4543 Coburg North Primary School Italian

484 Coburg Primary School Greek, Italian, Turkish

3941 Coburg West Primary School Greek, Italian

3535 Cockatoo Primary School Japanese

6211 Cohuna Consolidated School Japanese

716 Coimadai Primary School Auslan

117 Colac Primary School Indonesian

4775 Colac South West Primary School Indonesian

5127 Coldstream Primary School Indonesian

2118 Coleraine Primary School Indonesian

6212 Collingwood College Chinese (Mandarin)

4929 Comet Hill Primary School Auslan, French

1136 Concongella Primary School German

4952 Coolaroo South Primary School Arabic

5292 Coral Park Primary School Indonesian

8843 Corryong College Indonesian

5371 Courtenay Gardens Primary School Indonesian

4770 Craigieburn Primary School Japanese

5243 Craigieburn South Primary School Indonesian

4887 Cranbourne Park Primary School Indonesian

4755 Cranbourne South Primary School Indonesian

5189 Cranbourne West Primary School German

2041 Creswick North Primary School Indonesian

122 Creswick Primary School Indonesian

5255 Croydon Hills Primary School Indonesian

2900 Croydon Primary School Indonesian

4879 Croydon West Primary School Japanese

105 Cudgee Primary School Japanese

3907 Currawa Primary School Japanese

4933 Dallas North Primary School Auslan

4900 Dallas Primary School Arabic, Turkish

4723 Dandenong North Primary School French

1403 Dandenong Primary School French

4217 Dandenong West Primary School French

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School no. School name Language 5200 Darley Primary School Italian

2319 Darnum Primary School Japanese

878 Darraweit Guim Primary School Indonesian

1035 Dartmoor Primary School Japanese

1609 Daylesford Primary School Italian

1642 Deans Marsh Primary School Indonesian

1772 Dederang Primary School Indonesian

3680 Deepdene Primary School French

5032 Deer Park West Primary School Indonesian

5201 Delacombe Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

4996 Derinya Primary School Japanese

5375 Derrinallum P-12 College Japanese (primary level only)

3944 Dhurringile Primary School French

5037 Diamond Creek East Primary School Auslan

1003 Diamond Creek Primary School Italian

2479 Diggers Rest Primary School Italian

1585 Dixons Creek Primary School German

3956 Don Valley Primary School German

5019 Donburn Primary School Italian

5454 Doncaster Gardens Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

197 Doncaster Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

4961 Donvale Primary School Italian

1527 Dookie Primary School Japanese

945 Doreen Primary School Italian

5132 Dorset Primary School French

184 Dromana Primary School Japanese

1473 Drummartin Primary School Japanese

1848 Drummond Primary School Italian

1645 Drysdale Primary School Indonesian

1582 Dunolly Primary School Auslan

3215 Eagle Point Primary School Auslan

4837 East Bentleigh Primary School French

6217 East Loddon P-12 College German

5133 Eastbourne Primary School Indonesian

4702 Eastwood Primary School Auslan

208 Echuca Primary School Indonesian

3916 Echuca West Primary School Indonesian

5432 Edenhope College German

3790 Edithvale Primary School French

3931 Eildon Primary School Italian

2028 Elliminyt Primary School Indonesian

2189 Ellinbank Primary School Japanese

959 Elmhurst Primary School Japanese

220 Elphinstone Primary School Italian

2870 Elsternwick Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

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School no. School name Language 4897 Eltham East Primary School Japanese

4212 Eltham North Primary School Italian

209 Eltham Primary School Indonesian

3942 Elwood Primary School Indonesian

3381 Emerald Primary School Japanese

1788 Eppalock Primary School Indonesian

5513 Epping Views Primary School Auslan

2318 Eskdale Primary School Indonesian

4015 Essendon North Primary School Italian

483 Essendon Primary School Japanese

5116 Eumemmerring Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

1706 Euroa Primary School Italian

5399 Everton Primary School Italian

2711 Fairfield Primary School Greek

4906 Fairhills Primary School German

5067 Falls Creek Primary School French

3590 Fawkner Primary School Italian

4718 Ferntree Gully North Primary School Japanese

3228 Ferny Creek Primary School Japanese

1490 Fitzroy North Primary School Italian

250 Flemington Primary School Italian

1912 Footscray City Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

253 Footscray Primary School Italian, Vietnamese

3890 Footscray West Primary School Italian

5072 Fountain Gate Primary School Indonesian

4682 Frankston East Primary School Indonesian

4815 Frankston Heights Primary School Japanese

1464 Frankston Primary School Japanese

4919 Fyans Park Primary School Italian

3897 Gardenvale Primary School Japanese

2724 Garfield Primary School Indonesian

4398 Geelong (Tate Street) Primary School Spanish

541 Geelong East Primary School Indonesian

2506 Gembrook Primary School Japanese

262 Gisborne Primary School German

5066 Gladesville Primary School Italian

5007 Gladstone Park Primary School Italian

3982 Gladysdale Primary School German

4914 Glen Devon Primary School Italian

3703 Glen Huntly Primary School German

1148 Glen Iris Primary School French

5260 Glen Katherine Primary School Italian

5425 Glen Waverley Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

5436 Glen Waverley South Primary School Japanese

5010 Glendal Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

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School no. School name Language 1508 Glenferrie Primary School Italian

5050 Glengala/Sunshine West Primary School Vietnamese

1742 Glenrowan Primary School Indonesian

4809 Glenroy West Primary School Japanese

5531 Golden Square Primary School Auslan, French

4545 Goongerah Primary School Auslan

755 Gordon Primary School Indonesian

3696 Grahamvale Primary School Italian

5381 Grasmere Primary School Japanese

5478 Great Ryrie Primary School Indonesian

860 Great Western Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

2062 Greensborough Primary School Japanese

890 Greenvale Primary School Indonesian

5398 Greta Valley Primary School French

4694 Greythorn Primary School French

283 Grovedale Primary School French, German, Indonesian, Italian

5076 Grovedale West Primary School Auslan

2956 Gruyere Primary School Japanese

264 Guildford Primary School Indonesian

4853 Guthridge Primary School French

1076 Haddon Primary School Japanese

244 Hallam Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

4407 Hallam Valley Primary School Indonesian

3058 Halls Gap Primary School German

295 Hamilton (Gray Street) Primary School Italian

4804 Hamlyn Banks Primary School Italian

4062 Hampton Park Primary School Indonesian

3754 Hampton Primary School Spanish

843 Harrietville Primary School German

4730 Harrisfield Primary School Auslan

4055 Hartwell Primary School Italian

1098 Hastings Primary School Spanish

5434 Hawkesdale P-12 College Chinese (Mandarin)

849 Healesville Primary School Japanese

5345 Heany Park Primary School Indonesian

4819 Heathmont East Primary School Japanese

294 Heidelberg Primary School Japanese

767 Hepburn Primary School Italian

4681 Herne Hill Primary School Indonesian

1004 Hesket Primary School Indonesian

1108 Heyfield Primary School French

6225 Heywood Consolidated School Indonesian

304 Highton Primary School Italian

4986 Highvale Primary School Chinese (Mandarin), German

5482 Hillsmeade Primary School Auslan

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104 Appendix 4: Primary schools by language

School no. School name Language 2541 Hoddles Creek Primary School German

3167 Hopetoun Primary School German

4926 Horsham North Primary School Italian

298 Horsham Primary School Italian

4176 Hughesdale Primary School Indonesian

4716 Huntingdale Primary School Japanese

3939 Hurstbridge Primary School Italian

4896 Invergordon Primary School Italian

5152 Iramoo Primary School Italian

4386 Ivanhoe East Primary School Italian

2436 Ivanhoe Primary School Italian

5136 James Cook Primary School Indonesian

814 Jamieson Primary School Japanese

5176 Jells Park Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

2988 Jeparit Primary School Japanese

1951 Jindivick Primary School Spanish

5121 Kalinda Primary School Japanese

5418 Kananook Primary School Japanese

981 Kangaroo Flat Primary School Indonesian

2105 Kangaroo Ground Primary School Italian

5053 Karingal Heights Primary School Indonesian

4922 Karingal Primary School French, Japanese

5295 Karoo Primary School Indonesian

2069 Katamatite Primary School Japanese

2269 Katunga South Primary School French

5539 Keilor Views Primary School (interim name)

Italian

3686 Kennington Primary School Auslan

2374 Kensington Primary School Indonesian

5082 Kent Park Primary School Japanese

4949 Kerang South Primary School Indonesian

4816 Kerrimuir Primary School Japanese

3161 Kew East Primary School Italian

1075 Kew Primary School French

5534 Keysborough Primary School (interim name)

French

1366 Kialla Central Primary School Italian

1727 Kialla West Primary School Italian

5350 Kilberry Valley Primary School Indonesian

5236 Kings Park Primary School Japanese

4845 Kingsbury Primary School Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Indonesian, Japanese

5135 Kingsley Park Primary School Auslan

5101 Kingston Heath Primary School Italian

3988 Kingsville Primary School Italian

5106 Kingswood Primary School Japanese

5234 Knox Gardens Primary School Indonesian

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Appendix 4: Primary schools by language 105

School no. School name Language 4990 Knox Park Primary School French, Spanish

2629 Koo Wee Rup Primary School Italian

3470 Koorlong Primary School Auslan

618 Koroit And District Primary School Indonesian

3077 Korumburra Primary School Italian

5182 Kunyung Primary School French

343 Kyneton Primary School Indonesian

4863 Laburnum Primary School Italian

2805 Laharum Primary School Dutch

854 Lake Bolac College French

2122 Lake Charm Primary School Auslan

863 Lal Lal Primary School Japanese

5035 Lalor North Primary School Greek, Italian, Macedonian

1862 Landsborough Primary School Japanese, French

1275 Langley Primary School Indonesian

5257 Langwarrin Park Primary School Italian

3531 Langwarrin Primary School Italian, French, Indonesian

769 Lara Lake Primary School Italian

5393 Lardner and District Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

2599 Launching Place Primary School Japanese

6231 Lavers Hill P-12 College French

386 Learmonth Primary School Italian

2087 Leitchville Primary School Indonesian

2981 Leongatha Primary School Indonesian

1146 Leopold Primary School Indonesian

1386 Lethbridge Primary School Japanese

876 Lilydale Primary School Japanese

5057 Lilydale West Primary School Indonesian

2093 Little Bendigo Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

5113 Livingstone Primary School Chinese (Mandarin), German

4139 Lloyd Street Primary School Indonesian

6233 Lockington Consolidated School Indonesian

2707 Longwood Primary School Japanese

2162 Lorne-Aireys Inlet P-12 College Indonesian

1231 Lucknow Primary School Japanese

5494 Lynbrook Primary School Auslan

5535 Lyndale Greens Primary School (interim name)

French

1866 Lysterfield Primary School Indonesian

1571 Macarthur Primary School French

2022 Macarthur Street Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

3620 Macclesfield Primary School Japanese

1660 Macedon Primary School Indonesian

5297 Mackellar Primary School Italian

6242 Macleod College German

2271 Magpie Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

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School no. School name Language 1408 Malmsbury Primary School French

1604 Malvern Central School Japanese

2586 Malvern Primary School Italian

4669 Malvern Valley Primary School Japanese

5009 Manchester Primary School Japanese

5185 Mandama Primary School Japanese

4224 Manifold Heights Primary School Indonesian

8848 Manor Lakes P-12 College Auslan

1112 Mansfield Primary School Auslan

3433 Marlo Primary School Indonesian

1554 Marnoo Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

400 Marong Primary School Indonesian

1943 Maroona Primary School French

8845 Maryborough Education Centre Indonesian

4366 Mckinnon Primary School Indonesian

5227 Meadow Heights Primary School Turkish

5524 Meadows Primary School Arabic

5141 Melrose Primary School Indonesian

430 Melton Primary School Italian

4955 Mentone Park Primary School Italian

2950 Mentone Primary School Indonesian

2457 Menzies Creek Primary School Japanese

8886 Merbein P-10 College (interim name) Japanese, Indonesian

6237 Merino Consolidated School Indonesian

488 Mernda Primary School Italian

3110 Merri Creek Primary School Italian

1379 Merrijig Primary School French

3050 Metung Primary School Auslan

1051 Mickleham Primary School Indonesian

3315 Middle Kinglake Primary School Auslan

737 Milawa Primary School Italian

4389 Mildura South Primary School Auslan

5212 Milgate Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

5325 Mill Park Heights Primary School Italian

4969 Milleara Primary School Italian

5441 Millwarra Primary School Japanese

2904 Mitcham Primary School Indonesian

887 Mitta Mitta Primary School Indonesian

4662 Moe (South Street) Primary School Indonesian

3265 Monbulk Primary School French, Italian

5336 Monmia Primary School Japanese

3943 Mont Albert Primary School Italian

4112 Montmorency Primary School Italian

4925 Montmorency South Primary School French

4972 Montpellier Primary School French

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Appendix 4: Primary schools by language 107

School no. School name Language 2259 Montrose Primary School German

1911 Moolap Primary School Indonesian

4876 Moomba Park Primary School Italian

1683 Moonambel Primary School French

3987 Moonee Ponds Central School Italian

2901 Moonee Ponds West Primary School Japanese

1111 Moorabbin Primary School Italian

1612 Mooroopna North Primary School Italian

1975 Morang South Primary School Auslan

846 Mordialloc Beach Primary School French

4117 Moriac Primary School Italian

5040 Mornington Park Primary School French

2033 Mornington Primary School French

5376 Mortlake P-12 College Maori

2136 Morwell (Commercial Road ) Primary School

German

4680 Morwell (Tobruk Street) Primary School Indonesian

4975 Morwell Park Primary School German

5002 Mossfiel Primary School Italian

4644 Mount Beauty Primary School Indonesian

2037 Mount Blowhard Primary School Japanese

3284 Mount Dandenong Primary School German

5380 Mount Duneed Regional Primary School Italian

5140 Mount Eliza North Primary School French

1368 Mount Eliza Primary School Indonesian

3642 Mount Evelyn Primary School Italian

415 Mount Macedon Primary School Italian

5171 Mount Martha Primary School Japanese

1436 Mount Pleasant Primary School Japanese

8853 Mount Ridley P-12 College Italian, Japanese

4923 Mount View Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

5430 Mount Waverley North Primary School German

3432 Mount Waverley Primary School Japanese

4905 Mountain Gate Primary School German, Italian, Swahili, Spanish

5139 Movelle Primary School Japanese

1335 Moyhu Primary School French

2172 Mulgrave Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

4886 Mullum Primary School Italian

3859 Murrabit Group School Indonesian

3449 Murrumbeena Primary School Japanese

487 Myrniong Primary School Japanese

2677 Myrrhee Primary School French

8873 Myrtleford P-12 College (interim name) Italian

3708 Nanneella Estate Primary School Indonesian

1072 Napoleons Primary School French

2248 Nar Nar Goon Primary School French

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108 Appendix 4: Primary schools by language

School no. School name Language 5382 Narrawong District Primary School French

1901 Narre Warren North Primary School Indonesian

8839 Narre Warren South P-12 College Indonesian

2060 Nathalia Primary School Italian

1347 Natte Yallock Primary School French

1330 Navarre Primary School French

2432 Neerim South Primary School Japanese

467 New Gisborne Primary School Indonesian

4670 Newborough East Primary School Japanese

4650 Newborough Primary School Indonesian

1913 Newham Primary School French

4665 Newport Gardens Primary School Japanese

452 Newstead Primary School Indonesian

1716 Nicholson Primary School Indonesian

5410 Niddrie Primary School Japanese

2712 Nilma Primary School Japanese

1178 Noorat Primary School Indonesian

3618 Norris Bank Primary School Japanese

1402 North Melbourne Primary School Italian

4301 North Shore Primary School Auslan

1401 Northcote Primary School Italian

1652 Nullawarre and District Primary School Japanese

2134 Numurkah Primary School French

4808 Nunawading (Mount Pleasant Road) Primary School

German

4226 Nungurner Primary School Japanese

4721 Oak Park Primary School Japanese

1601 Oakleigh Primary School Japanese

4823 Oakleigh South Primary School Japanese

5363 Oatlands Primary School Indonesian

3100 Ocean Grove Primary School Indonesian

2742 Officer Primary School Auslan

4715 Old Orchard Primary School German

3494 Olinda Primary School Indonesian

4767 Orbost North Primary School Indonesian

2744 Orbost Primary School Auslan

5285 Orchard Grove Primary School German

3074 Ormond Primary School Korean

3805 Orrvale Primary School Italian

2655 Osborne Primary School Indonesian

1463 Osbornes Flat Primary School French

4780 Overport Primary School Japanese

6243 Pakenham Consolidated School Indonesian

5504 Pakenham Lakeside Primary School Indonesian

1079 Panmure Primary School Japanese

1134 Panton Hill Primary School Italian

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School no. School name Language 4854 Park Orchards Primary School Italian

5281 Park Ridge Primary School Indonesian

4171 Parkdale Primary School Indonesian

5416 Parkhill Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

4881 Parkmore Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

4843 Parktone Primary School Italian

4731 Pascoe Vale North Primary School Italian

3081 Pascoe Vale Primary School Italian

4704 Pascoe Vale South Primary School Italian

5190 Patterson Lakes Primary School French, Italian

2961 Pearcedale Primary School Auslan

4937 Pembroke Primary School Italian

3806 Penders Grove Primary School Italian

5369 Pentland Primary School Italian

5367 Peranbin Primary College Japanese

4874 Pinewood Primary School Italian, Chinese (Mandarin), Greek, Indonesian

1915 Plenty Parklands Primary School Indonesian

4159 Point Cook P- 9 College Indonesian

2859 Pomonal Primary School Japanese

6245 Poowong Consolidated School German

1144 Porepunkah Primary School Italian

2455 Portarlington Primary School Indonesian

1194 Portland North Primary School French

489 Portland Primary School Indonesian

4750 Portland South Primary School French

4764 Preston North East Primary School Italian

1494 Preston Primary School Italian

824 Preston South Primary School Chinese (Mandarin), Greek, Macedonian

3885 Preston West Primary School Italian

2955 Princes Hill Primary School Italian

1855 Puckapunyal Primary School Indonesian

2005 Pyalong Primary School Indonesian

1712 Pyramid Hill College Indonesian

2443 Quambatook Group School Indonesian

1165 Quarry Hill Primary School Indonesian

1190 Queenscliff Primary School Indonesian

5346 Ranfurly Primary School Indonesian

5232 Rangebank Primary School Auslan

5431 Rangeview Primary School German

4057 Red Cliffs Primary School Auslan, Italian

6249 Red Hill Consolidated School German, Italian

2571 Redesdale Mia Mia Primary School Indonesian

5131 Regency Park Primary School Spanish

2959 Research Primary School Japanese

4686 Reservoir East Primary School Chinese (Mandarin), German,

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School no. School name Language Greek, Italian

3960 Reservoir Primary School Italian

4711 Reservoir West Primary School Italian

5269 Richmond Primary School Greek

5044 Richmond West Primary School Chinese (Mandarin), Vietnamese

528 Riddells Creek Primary School French

4911 Ringwood Heights Primary School Indonesian

4120 Ringwood North Primary School Indonesian

2129 Ripplebrook Primary School French

4087 Ripponlea Primary School Italian

5130 River Gum Primary School Indonesian

5419 Roberts McCubbin Primary School Japanese

795 Rochester Primary School Indonesian

919 Rockbank Primary School Indonesian

5241 Rolling Hills Primary School German

4867 Rollins Primary School Italian

4753 Rosanna Golf Links Primary School Auslan

4568 Rosanna Primary School Italian

2627 Rosebud Primary School Indonesian

5087 Rosewood Downs Primary School Japanese

4663 Roslyn Primary School Indonesian

5313 Rowellyn Park Primary School Auslan

5443 Roxburgh Homestead Primary School Italian

5493 Roxburgh Rise Primary School Italian

1595 Rupanyup Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

4916 Ruskin Park Primary School Japanese

522 Rutherglen Primary School Japanese

1667 Rye Primary School French

545 Sale Primary School Japanese

4429 Sandringham East Primary School Japanese

267 Sandringham Primary School Italian

3222 Sassafras Primary School German

1028 Scoresby Primary School French

5337 Seabrook Primary School Italian

4974 Seaford North Primary School German

5191 Seaford Park Primary School Indonesian

3835 Seaford Primary School Indonesian

4685 Selby Primary School Japanese

5168 Serpell Primary School Chinese (Mandarin), Greek, Macedonian

2820 Seville Primary School Auslan

4742 Shepparton (Bourchier Street) Primary School

Italian

5020 Shepparton (Guthrie Street) Primary School

Auslan

4666 Shepparton (St Georges Road) Primary School

Italian

4943 Shepparton (Wilmot Road) Primary School Arabic

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School no. School name Language 1713 Shepparton East Primary School Italian

6252 Sherbrooke Community School Chinese (Mandarin)

5120 Silverton Primary School French

4895 Simpson Primary School Indonesian

1222 Skye Primary School Japanese

4641 Solway Primary School Japanese

4458 Somers Primary School German

5372 Somerville Rise Primary School Indonesian

583 South Yarra Primary School French

5235 Southern Cross Primary School French

4910 Southmoor Primary School Italian

1316 Specimen Hill Primary School Indonesian

3146 Spensley Street Primary School Italian

3505 Spring Gully Primary School German

1583 Springhurst Primary School Japanese

5537 Springvale Rise Primary School (interim name)

Chinese (Mandarin)

4741 St Albans East Primary School Auslan

4948 St Albans Heights Primary School French

5118 St Albans Meadows Primary School Italian

1646 St Arnaud Primary School French

1479 St Kilda Primary School Japanese

866 St Leonards Primary School Indonesian

502 Stawell Primary School German

4934 Stawell West Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

1896 Stonnington Primary School Greek

596 Stratford Primary School French

5463 Strathaird Primary School Italian

3947 Strathewen Primary School Italian

1211 Strathfieldsaye Primary School Indonesian

2790 Strathmerton Primary School French

4821 Strathmore North Primary School Japanese

5438 Streeton Primary School Italian

1002 Sunbury Primary School Italian

5526 Sunshine Harvester Primary School Italian

4744 Sunshine Heights Primary School Greek

4745 Sunshine North Primary School Vietnamese

3113 Sunshine Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

2778 Surrey Hills Primary School Italian

4832 Sussex Heights Primary School Japanese

1631 Swan Reach Primary School Japanese

3559 Sydenham - Hillside Primary School Japanese

4924 Syndal South Primary School Japanese

2544 Taggerty Primary School Japanese

954 Talbot Primary School French

1954 Talgarno Primary School French

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112 Appendix 4: Primary schools by language

School no. School name Language 1365 Tallangatta Primary School Indonesian

2337 Tallangatta Valley Primary School Indonesian

1488 Tallarook Primary School Afrikaans

1023 Tarnagulla Primary School Indonesian

4275 Tarwin Lower Primary School Indonesian

5420 Tarwin Valley Primary School Indonesian

2282 Tawonga Primary School French

3356 Tecoma Primary School Japanese

5004 Templestowe Heights Primary School Italian

5129 Templestowe Park Primary School Japanese

4985 Templestowe Valley Primary School Italian

5196 Templeton Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

5386 Tempy Primary School German

6236 Terang College French

2329 The Basin Primary School German

3581 The Lake Primary School Indonesian

8846 The Lakes South Morang P-9 School Auslan (primary level only)

5173 The Patch Primary School Japanese

5343 Thomas Chirnside Primary School Karen

5294 Thomas Mitchell Primary School Chinese (Mandarin), Indonesian

2056 Thoona Primary School French

3889 Thornbury Primary School Italian

1371 Thornton Primary School Japanese

5479 Timbarra Primary School Indonesian

6260 Timboon P-12 School Japanese

1207 Timor Primary School French

5075 Tinternvale Primary School Japanese

6255 Tongala Primary School French

1225 Tooborac Primary School Indonesian

3237 Toolangi Primary School Japanese

856 Toongabbie Primary School Indonesian

2253 Toora Primary School Indonesian

1503 Tooradin Primary School Italian

3016 Toorak Primary School French

3368 Torquay P-9 College Indonesian

3584 Traralgon (Grey Street) Primary School German

4700 Traralgon (Liddiard Road) Primary School Auslan

1150 Trawalla Primary School French, Japanese

1588 Trentham District Primary School Italian

4687 Tucker Road Bentleigh Primary School Italian

4852 Tullamarine Primary School Japanese

3129 Tyabb Primary School Indian

2182 Tyers Primary School Auslan

621 Tylden Primary School Indonesian

1771 Undera Primary School Italian

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Appendix 4: Primary schools by language 113

School no. School name Language 4993 Upfield Primary School Arabic, Turkish

3926 Upper Ferntree Gully Primary School Japanese

1244 Upper Plenty Primary School Japanese

3145 Upper Sandy Creek Primary School Indonesian

4530 Upwey Primary School German

4894 Upwey South Primary School German

2103 Urquhart Park Primary School Japanese

4778 Valkstone Primary School Japanese

1022 Vermont Primary School Indonesian

4892 Viewbank Primary School Japanese

5401 Waaia Yalca South Primary School Japanese

644 Wahgunyah Primary School French

3139 Wales Street Primary School Italian, Japanese

664 Wallan Primary School Indonesian

5055 Wallarano Primary School Italian

3345 Wallington Primary School Indonesian

2806 Walwa Primary School Indonesian

275 Wandiligong Primary School Italian

3892 Wandin North Primary School Indonesian

1033 Wandin Yallock Primary School French

643 Wangaratta Primary School Italian

4642 Wangaratta West Primary School Japanese

3709 Wantirna Primary School Indonesian

4582 Wantirna South Primary School Indonesian

1485 Warburton Primary School Indonesian

1334 Warracknabeal Primary School Japanese

12 Warrandyte Primary School Japanese

3476 Warranwood Primary School Japanese

1743 Warrnambool Primary School Japanese

4988 Watsonia North Primary School Italian, Indonesian

4838 Watsonia Primary School Italian

3841 Wattle Park Primary School Italian

5105 Waverley Meadows Primary School Japanese

6262 Wedderburn College Indonesian

5206 Wedge Park Primary School Italian

5157 Weeden Heights Primary School German

4041 Welton Primary School Indonesian

4788 Wembley Primary School Italian

649 Werribee Primary School Karen

3466 Wesburn Primary School Auslan

4158 Westbreen Primary School Italian

4177 Westgarth Primary School Greek

5365 Westgrove Primary School Italian

982 Westmeadows Primary School Italian

5094 Wheelers Hill Primary School Chinese (Mandarin), French

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114 Appendix 4: Primary schools by language

School no. School name Language 1916 White Hills Primary School French

5530 Whitehorse Primary School (interim name) Chinese (Mandarin), Italian

5397 Whitfield District Primary School Italian

1373 Whorouly Primary School Italian

2662 Willaura Primary School Japanese

1409 Williamstown North Primary School Japanese

1183 Williamstown Primary School Italian

5342 Willmott Park Primary School Auslan

2520 Willow Grove Primary School French

2015 Winchelsea Primary School Japanese

1856 Windermere Primary School Japanese

652 Winters Flat Primary School Indonesian

1870 Winton Primary School Indonesian

5440 Woady Yaloak Primary School Japanese

37 Wodonga Primary School Japanese

5042 Wodonga South Primary School Indonesian

4814 Wodonga West Primary School Japanese

3241 Wonga Park Primary School Japanese

647 Woodend Primary School French, Japanese

5319 Woodlands Primary School Italian

1176 Woodside Primary School Indonesian

5049 Woodville Primary School Japanese

688 Woolsthorpe Primary School Indonesian

4989 Wooranna Park Primary School Japanese, French, German, Spanish

1259 Woori Yallock Primary School German

5439 Woorinen District Primary School Auslan

2518 Wurruk Primary School Japanese

8831 Wycheproof P-12 College Chinese (Mandarin) (primary level only)

1103 Yackandandah Primary School Indonesian

691 Yandoit Primary School Italian

3216 Yarra Junction Primary School Japanese

5271 Yarra Primary School Greek, Chinese (Mandarin)

4219 Yarra Road Primary School Indonesian

2178 Yarragon Primary School German

4807 Yarraman Oaks Primary School (interim name)

Japanese

2054 Yarrambat Primary School Italian

2832 Yarraville West Primary School Italian

4761 Yarrunga Primary School Japanese

5429 Yawarra Primary School Chinese (Mandarin)

4705 Yellingbo Primary School German

1034 Yering Primary School Japanese

5520 Yuille Park P-8 Community College Thai

4359 Zeerust Primary School Japanese

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Appendix 5: Secondary colleges by language 115

Appendix 5: Secondary Colleges and Languages Offered, 2010

School no. School name Language 7505 Alexandra Secondary College Indonesian, Japanese

8874 Alkira Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin)

8857 Altona College (interim name) Italian, Japanese

6203 Apollo Bay P-12 College Indonesian

8753 Ararat Community College French

8743 Ashwood Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), French

8777 Bacchus Marsh College Chinese (Mandarin)

5315 Baden Powell P-9 College Italian

8814 Baimbridge College Italian

8466 Bairnsdale Secondary College German, Japanese

7540 Ballarat High School German, Japanese

8828 Ballarat Secondary College Indonesian

8872 Balmoral P-12 Community College (interim name)

French

7550 Balwyn High School Chinese (Mandarin), French, Greek

8800 Bayside P-12 College Japanese, Arabic, Italian

7560 Bayswater Secondary College German

7565 Beaufort Secondary College Japanese

7575 Beechworth Secondary College Indonesian

8250 Bellarine Secondary College French, Indonesian

7585 Belmont High School Indonesian, Italian

8810 Benalla College Indonesian

7595 Bendigo Senior Secondary College Auslan, Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Indonesian

7837 Bendigo South East 7-10 Secondary College

Auslan, Chinese (Mandarin), German, Indonesian

7255 Bentleigh Secondary College Greek, Indonesian, Japanese

7603 Berwick Secondary College German, Indonesian

8832 Birchip P-12 School Japanese

7610 Blackburn High School French, German

7625 Boort Secondary College French

7048 Boronia Heights College German

7635 Box Hill High School Chinese (Mandarin), German

7395 Brauer Secondary College Japanese

7645 Braybrook College Vietnamese

7647 Brentwood Secondary College German, Japanese

776 Bright P-12 College Japanese, German

7650 Brighton Secondary College Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin), French

7655 Broadford Secondary College Japanese

8807 Brunswick Secondary College Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Italian

7670 Buckley Park College German, Japanese

7874 Bundoora Secondary College German

7680 Camberwell High School French, Chinese (Mandarin), Indonesian

7690 Canterbury Girls Secondary College

French, Japanese

5483 Caroline Springs College Indonesian, Spanish

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116 Appendix 6: Schools without language programs

School no. School name Language 5486 Carranballac P-9 College Indonesian

8423 Carrum Downs Secondary College Japanese

5435 Carwatha College P-12 French

7695 Casterton Secondary College Indonesian

8824 Castlemaine Secondary College French, German, Indonesian

7250 Chaffey Secondary College Indonesian, Italian

8890 Charles La Trobe College (interim name)

Auslan (secondary level only)

8830 Charlton College Indonesian

7720 Cheltenham Secondary College Italian

7725 Cobram Secondary College Japanese

7735 Cohuna Secondary College Japanese

8864 Colac Secondary College French

6212 Collingwood College Chinese (Mandarin)

8799 Copperfield College Italian, Japanese

8843 Corryong College Indonesian

8705 Craigieburn Secondary College Indonesian, Italian

7747 Cranbourne Secondary College German

7755 Croydon Secondary College German

7205 Crusoe 7-10 Secondary College French, German, Indonesian

8858 Dandenong High School (interim name)

French, Japanese, Latin

7115 Daylesford Secondary College Italian

7763 Debney Park Secondary College Italian

8746 Diamond Valley College Italian

7770 Dimboola Memorial Secondary College

German

7775 Donald High School French

7776 Doncaster Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), French, Italian

7122 Dromana Secondary College Indonesian, Japanese

7785 Drouin Secondary College French, Japanese

7790 Eaglehawk Secondary College French, Indonesian

7773 East Doncaster Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), Italian

6217 East Loddon P-12 College German

8855 Echuca College Indonesian

5432 Edenhope College German

8722 Elisabeth Murdoch College Indonesian, Italian

7805 Eltham High School French, Indonesian

7810 Elwood College French, Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese

8707 Emerald Secondary College Japanese

8871 Endeavour Hills Secondary College(interim name)

German

7813 Epping Secondary College Italian, Macedonian

8806 Essendon East Keilor District College

Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin), Italian

7820 Euroa Secondary College Japanese

7823 Fairhills High School German, Japanese

8742 Fitzroy High School Italian

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Appendix 5: Secondary colleges by language 117

School no. School name Language 8836 Footscray City College Italian, Japanese, Spanish

8724 Forest Hill College French, Auslan, Chinese (Mandarin), German

8870 Fountain Gate Secondary College(interim name)

German, Indonesian

7850 Frankston High School French, Japanese

7402 Galvin Park Secondary College Italian

7855 Geelong High School German, Japanese

7841 Gilmore College For Girls Italian, Vietnamese

7857 Gisborne Secondary College French, Indonesian, Japanese

7858 Gladstone Park Secondary College French, Italian

8704 Glen Eira College Chinese (Mandarin), French

8808 Glen Waverley Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), French, Italian

8869 Gleneagles Secondary College(interim name)

German, Indonesian

8893 Glenroy College (interim name) Indonesian

6223 Goroke P-12 College Indonesian (secondary level only)

8750 Greensborough Secondary College Italian

7183 Grovedale College Indonesian, Japanese

8709 Hampton Park Secondary College French

5434 Hawkesdale P12 College Chinese (Mandarin)

7934 Hawthorn Secondary College Greek

7900 Healesville High School Japanese

8816 Heathmont College German, Indonesian

7910 Heywood District Secondary College

French

7918 Highvale Secondary College French, German

7920 Hopetoun Secondary College German

8710 Hoppers Crossing Secondary College

Italian

8818 Horsham College Chinese (Mandarin), German

7198 Irymple Secondary College Italian, French, German, Greek, Indonesian

8894 John Fawkner College (interim name)

Italian

8856 John Monash Science School French, Japanese

8421 Kambrya College German, Japanese

7942 Kealba Secondary College Italian

8715 Keilor Downs Secondary College Italian, Japanese

7945 Kerang Tech High School Indonesian

7950 Kew High School French, Italian, Japanese

8867 Keysborough Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), French

7955 Koo Wee Rup Secondary College Italian

7954 Koonung Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), French, Japanese

7960 Korumburra Secondary College Italian

8716 Kurnai College German, Chinese (Mandarin)

8718 Kurunjang Secondary College Italian

7965 Kyabram P-12 College (interim name)

French, German, Indonesian, Japanese (secondary level only)

7970 Kyneton Secondary College French, Indonesian

854 Lake Bolac College French

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118 Appendix 6: Schools without language programs

School no. School name Language 7986 Lalor North Secondary College Italian

7985 Lalor Secondary College French, Greek, Italian, Macedonian

8841 Lara Secondary College Indonesian

6231 Lavers Hill P-12 College French

8745 Leongatha Secondary College Indonesian, Japanese

7219 Lilydale Heights College Indonesian, Japanese

7995 Lilydale High School French, Indonesian

2162 Lorne-Aireys Inlet P-12 College Indonesian

8821 Lowanna College Indonesian, Italian

8000 Lyndale Secondary College French, Italian, Japanese

7108 Lyndhurst Secondary College Indonesian

8135 Mac Robertson Girls High School French, German, Indonesian, Japanese

6242 Macleod College German

8005 Maffra Secondary College Indonesian, French, Japanese

3515 Mallacoota P-12 College French, Italian (secondary level only)

1604 Malvern Central School Japanese

8848 Manor Lakes P-12 College Auslan

8010 Mansfield Secondary College French, Indonesian

8017 Maroondah Secondary College Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin), French

8845 Maryborough Education Centre Indonesian

8022 Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College

Chinese (Mandarin), French, Indonesian

7331 Mc Guire College Italian

8835 McClelland Secondary College Japanese

8125 McKinnon Secondary College French, German

8819 Melbourne Girls College Chinese (Mandarin), French

8025 Melbourne High School French, German, Indonesian, Japanese

8027 Melton Secondary College German, Japanese

8030 Mentone Girls Secondary College French, Japanese

8886 Merbein P-10 College (interim name)

Japanese, Indonesian

8045 Mildura Senior College Indonesian, Italian

8775 Mill Park Secondary College German, Italian

8050 Mirboo North Secondary College German

8065 Monbulk College German, Japanese

8809 Monterey Secondary College French

8068 Montmorency Secondary College French, Japanese

3987 Moonee Ponds Central School Italian

8071 Mooroolbark College German

8073 Mooroopna Secondary College Indonesian, Italian

8075 Mordialloc College French

8804 Mornington Secondary College Indonesian, Japanese

5376 Mortlake P-12 College Maori

8100 Mount Beauty Secondary College Indonesian

7267 Mount Clear College Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese

8102 Mount Eliza Secondary College Indonesian, Chinese (Mandarin), German

7028 Mount Erin Secondary College Indonesian

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School no. School name Language 8853 Mount Ridley P-12 College Italian, Japanese

8105 Mount Waverley Secondary College Japanese, Chinese (Mandarin), German

8744 Mullauna Secondary College German, Indonesian

1549 Murtoa College German (secondary level only)

8873 Myrtleford P-12 College (interim name)

Italian

8839 Narre Warren South P-12 College Indonesian

8140 Nathalia Secondary College Indonesian

8151 Newcomb Secondary College Indonesian

8833 Nhill College Indonesian (secondary level only)

8813 Noble Park Secondary College German, Japanese

8175 Norlane High School Japanese

7856 North Geelong Secondary College German

8180 Northcote High School Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Italian

8185 Norwood Secondary College French, Indonesian

8865 Nossal High School Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Indonesian, Japanese

8210 Oberon High School German, Indonesian, Japanese

8215 Orbost Secondary College Indonesian

8223 Pakenham Secondary College French

8225 Parkdale Secondary College French, Japanese

8226 Parkwood Secondary College Indonesian, Japanese

8227 Pascoe Vale Girls Secondary College

Arabic, French, Italian, Japanese

8725 Patterson River Secondary College German, Indonesian

8815 Pembroke Secondary College Italian

4159 Point Cook P-9 College Indonesian

8798 Portland Secondary College Indonesian

8240 Preston Girls Secondary College Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Italian

8245 Princes Hill Secondary College French, Italian

1712 Pyramid Hill College Indonesian

8255 Rainbow Secondary College German

8260 Red Cliffs Secondary College Indonesian

8708 Reservoir District Secondary College

Chinese (Mandarin), Greek, Italian

8270 Ringwood Secondary College French, Indonesian

8280 Rochester Secondary College Indonesian

8290 Rosebud Secondary College Indonesian, Japanese

7275 Rosehill Secondary College Italian, Japanese

8734 Rowville Secondary College Indonesian, Italian

8407 Roxburgh College French, Italian, Turkish

8300 Rutherglen High School French

8895 Ruthven Secondary College (interim name)

Greek, Italian

8834 Sale College Japanese

8739 Sandringham College French, Indonesian, Japanese

8307 Scoresby Secondary College French

7325 Sebastopol College German

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120 Appendix 6: Schools without language programs

School no. School name Language

8884 Seymour P-12 College (interim name)

Indonesian (secondary level only)

8320 Shepparton High School Auslan, Japanese

6252 Sherbrooke Community School Chinese (Mandarin)

8875 Somerville Secondary College Indonesian

7845 South Gippsland Secondary College

French

8801 South Oakleigh Secondary College Greek, Japanese

8330 St Albans Secondary College French, Italian, Japanese, Vietnamese

8335 St Arnaud Secondary College French

8730 St Helena Secondary College Italian

7247 Staughton College French

8731 Stawell Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), German

8345 Strathmore Secondary College Japanese, Greek, Italian, Japanese

8350 Sunbury College Italian, Japanese

8723 Sunbury Downs Secondary College Italian

8790 Sunshine College Italian, Vietnamese

7366 Swinburne Senior Secondary College

French

8370 Tallangatta Secondary College Indonesian

8787 Taylors Lakes Secondary College Italian, Japanese

8823 Templestowe College Italian

6236 Terang College French

8783 The Grange P-12 College Italian (secondary level only)

8383 Thomastown Secondary College Arabic, Italian, Macedonian, Vietnamese

8797 Thornbury High School Chinese (Mandarin), Greek, Indonesian, Italian

6260 Timboon P-12 School Japanese

3368 Torquay P-9 College Indonesian

8395 Trafalgar High School Indonesian

8803 Traralgon College German

8405 University High School French, German, Latin

8410 Upper Yarra Secondary College German, Japanese

8415 Upwey High School French, German, Japanese

8420 Vermont Secondary College French, German, Indonesian

8891 Victoria University Secondary College (interim name)

Chinese (Mandarin), Italian, Vietnamese

7384 Victorian College Of The Arts Secondary School

French, Japanese

8812 Viewbank College German, Japanese

8791 Wallan Secondary College Indonesian

8422 Wanganui Park Secondary College Italian, Japanese

8425 Wangaratta High School German, Italian, Japanese

8428 Wantirna College Chinese (Mandarin), Indonesian, Spanish

8430 Warracknabeal Secondary College Japanese

8827 Warragul Regional College Indonesian, Japanese

8437 Warrandyte High School Italian

8811 Warrnambool College French, Indonesian, Japanese

6262 Wedderburn College Indonesian

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Appendix 5: Secondary colleges by language 121

School no. School name Language 7405 Weeroona College Bendigo French, Indonesian (secondary level only)

8462 Wellington Secondary College French

8465 Werribee Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), Italian, Japanese, Spanish

8470 Westall Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), French, Greek, Italian, Khmer, Vietnamese

8820 Western Heights Secondary College

French, Japanese

7893 Western Port Secondary College Indonesian

8474 Wheelers Hill Secondary College French, Indonesian

8475 Williamstown High School French, Indonesian, Japanese

8851 Wodonga Middle Years College Indonesian, Japanese (secondary level only)

8480 Wodonga Senior Secondary College

Japanese

8736 Wonthaggi Secondary College Indonesian, Japanese

8500 Yea High School Chinese (Mandarin), Indonesian

5520 Yuille Park P-8 Community College Thai

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122 Appendix 6: VSL centres

Appendix 6: VSL Centres and Languages Offered, 2010

VSL centre Languages

1. Altona North Campus (Bayside P–12 College) Arabic, Croatian, Macedonian and Vietnamese

2. Ballarat High School Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Greek and Italian

3. Bendigo Senior Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin) and German

4. Bentleigh Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), Greek, Russian and Turkish

5. Blackburn High School Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Punjabi and Vietnamese

6. Box Hill High School Chin (Hakha), Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, German, Italian, Persian and Spanish

7. Brentwood Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese and Sinhala

8. Brimbank College Arabic, Bosnian, Spanish and Vietnamese

9. Brunswick Secondary College Albanian, Bulgarian, Chinese (Mandarin), Greek, Indonesian and Italian

10. Carwatha College Arabic, Bosnian, French, Greek, Italian, Sinhala and Spanish

11. Chandler Secondary College Bengali, Croatian and German

12. Cobram Secondary College Arabic

13. Collingwood College Spanish and Vietnamese

14. Dandenong High School

Chinese (Mandarin), Dari, Filipino, Hindi, Hungarian, Macedonian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Tigrinya and Turkish

15. Distance Education Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), French German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Latin and Spanish

16. Doncaster Secondary College Chinese (Cantonese), Chinese (Mandarin) and Greek

17. Footscray City College Amharic, Greek, Spanish and Vietnamese

18. Galvin Park Secondary College Albanian, Bosnian, Karen, Punjabi and Sinhala

19. Gisborne Secondary College French, Italian and Japanese

20. Glen Waverley Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), Dari, French, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian and Japanese

21. Haileybury College Chinese (Mandarin), Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and Vietnamese

22. Hampton Park Secondary College Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Dari, French, Khmer, Punjabi and Sinhala

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VSL centre Languages

23. Hume Central Secondary College Syriac and Vietnamese

24. John Monash Science School French and Japanese

25. Kambrya College Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese and Spanish

26. Keilor Downs College Croatian, Greek, Macedonian and Turkish

27. Lalor Secondary College Arabic and Vietnamese

28. Leongatha Secondary College French and Italian

29. McKinnon Secondary College Hebrew and Russian

30. Matthew Flinders Girls Secondary College Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), German, Italian, Japanese, Persian and Spanish

31. Mildura Secondary College Greek, Italian and Turkish

32. Mill Park Secondary College Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Greek, Hindi, Italian, and Sinhala

33. North Geelong Secondary College Albanian, Bosnian, Croatian, Karen, Macedonian, Polish, Russian, Turkish and Vietnamese

34. Princes Hill Secondary College Arabic, German, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese and Turkish

35. Roxburgh College Arabic, Croatian, Sinhala, Spanish, and Turkish

36. Shepparton High School Albanian, Arabic, Dari, Filipino, Greek, Persian, Punjabi, Swahili and Turkish

37. Sunshine Secondary College Chin (Hakha), Dinka, Hindi and Vietnamese

38. Taylors Lakes Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), Maltese and Punjabi

39. Thomastown Secondary College Macedonian, Punjabi and Turkish

40. Traralgon Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin)

41. University High School Chinese (Mandarin), French, Japanese, Serbian and Spanish

42. Warrnambool College French and Italian

43. Westall Secondary College Khmer and Vietnamese

44. Wodonga West Secondary College Chinese (Mandarin), French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish