Aims

The Western Australian Curriculum: Languages aims to develop the knowledge, understanding and skills to ensure that students:

• communicate in the target language
• extend their literacy repertoires
• understand language, culture, learning and their relationship, and thereby develop an intercultural capability in communication
• develop understanding of and respect for diversity and difference, and an openness to different experiences and perspectives
• develop an understanding of how culture shapes worldviews and extend their understanding of themselves, their own heritage, values, culture and identity
• strengthen their intellectual, analytical and reflective capabilities, and enhance their creative and critical thinking skills
• understand themselves as communicators.