STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT IN ASIAN LANGUAGES EDUCATION
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The report describes the rationale, aims, design of the study, test specifications and test materials used to elicit student achievement, the analyses of student achievement, the process used to develop the descriptions of student achievements and accompanying examples, and the findings of the study
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The report is in four volumes:

Part 1: Project Report (1.3MB)
Part 2: Descriptions of Student Achievement (3.4MB)
 Part 3: Appendices (7.2MB)
 Part 4: Exemplars with Commentaries (22.3MB)
Full Report (32.2MB)

Background to the Project


The Student Achievement in Asian Languages Education project was commissioned and funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). It was developed and managed by the Research Centre for Languages and Cultures (RCLC) at the University of South Australia and the Language Testing Research Centre at The University of Melbourne.
The aim of the project was to conduct research to describe the achievements of students in learning particular languages (Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese, and Korean) at Year 6/7, Year 10, and Year 12, based on evidence of performance under different conditions (e.g. program type, duration and intensity of learning). The descriptions are designed to characterise performance differences according to language background (i.e. students’ different degrees of prior exposure to the target language).
The project responds to the need in languages education for baseline data on student achievement. That is, it addresses the question of what students actually achieve as a result of learning languages as part of their education in Australia. Addressing the question is necessary, because those involved in the field need to be able to respond adequately to questions of ‘what’ and ‘how well’ students learn in languages education. This in turn is necessary both for referencing and describing learning expectations and for developing community understanding of what can be achieved realistically in a school language learning program.
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If you require more information, do not hesitate to contact the Project Directors:
Associate Professor Angela Scarino
Research Centre for Languages and Cultures
University of South Australia
Telephone: 08 8302 4775
Email: angela.scarino@unisa.edu.au

Associate Professor Catherine Elder
Language Testing Research Centre
University of Melbourne
Telephone: 03 8344 5180
Email: caelder@unimelb.edu.au

Project team

Dr Noriko Iwashita
School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland
Dr Sun Hee Ok Kim
School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies, The University of Queensland
Dr Michelle Kohler
RCLC, University of South Australia
Mr Andrew Scrimgeour
RCLC, University of South Australia
Dr Ute Knoch
LTRC, The University of Melbourne
Dr Anne-Marie Morgan
RCLC, University of South Australia

Project assistants

Mr Ari Bickley
RCLC, University of South Australia
Ms Anna Dinys
RCLC, University of South Australia
Ms Hyejeong Kim
LTRC, The University of South Australia
Ms Jamie Mazraeh
RCLC, University of South Australia

Project advisory group

Ms Sarah Barron (March - July 2009)
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Ms Rachael Taylor   (July - December 2009)
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Ms Amanda Day (January 2010 - )
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
Ms Josephine Holzner
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relation
Ms Connie Andreana
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development, Victoria, representing MCEECDYA Languages Education Working Part
Ms Kylie Farmer
Australian Federation of Modern Languages Teachers Association
Ms Gillian Cordy
Catholic Education Commission of NSW, representing the National Catholic Education Commissio
Dr Antonio Mercurio
​SACE Board of South Australia,
representing the Australasian Curriculum, Assessment and Certification Authorities (ACACA)
Associate Professor Angela Scarino
Project Director
Associate Professor Catherine Elder
Project Director

Language-specific teacher assessor panels

Chinese
Mr Andrew Scrimgeour (Chair)
Ms Marnie Foster
Mr Wei Ha
Ms Jenny Jin
Ms Danying Liu
Ms Faraday Pang
Dr Ning Zhang

Indonesian
Dr Michelle Kohler (Chair)
Ms Vicki Fischmann
Ms Melissa Gould-Drakeley
Ms Ida Harsojo
Ms Lee Pereira

Japanese
Dr Noriko Iwashita (Chair)
Ms Meredith Beck 
Mr Greg Dabelstein
Ms Kylie Farmer
Ms Naoko Nishikawa
Dr Robyn Spence-Brown

Korean
Dr Sun Hee Ok Kim (Chair)
Ms Hee-Kyoung Lee
Ms Jennifer Lewis

Verification process teachers

​Chinese
Mr Lewis Liu - St Ignatius College, Riverview NSW
Ms Weifeng Mao - St Ignatius College, Norwood SA
Mr Michael Shaw - Melbourne Grammar, Vic.
Mr Philip Wilson - Adelaide High School, SA

Indonesian
Ms Diyah Christie - Darwin High School, NT
Ms Andrea Corston - School of Languages, Adelaide SA
Ms Liz Formby - Portland School, Vic.

Japanese
Ms Jessica Clark - Mawson Lakes Primary School, SA
Mr Nathan Lane - St Columba’s College, Essendon Vic.
Dr Robyn Moloney - Macquarie University, NSW

Korean
Ms Mi Kyung Kim - Canberra Montessori School, ACT
Ms Chungsoon Pak - School of Languages, Adelaide SA

Expert consultation group

Ms Sarah Barron
​Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR)
Ms Gabriella Bertolissi
​Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority
Ms Libby Bond
​Queensland Studies Authority
Ms Maree Dellora
​Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority
Mr David Jaffray
​Department of Education and Training (DET) NSW
Ms Josephine Holzner
​Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR)
Dr Antonio Mercurio
​SACE Board of South Australia and
representative of ACACA
Dr Jane Orton
​The University of Melbourne
Dr David Reeve
​University of NSW
Ms Kristien Sarwo-Rini
​Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD), Victoria
Dr Seong-Chul Shin
​University of NSW
Dr Margaret Silink
​Board of Studies NSW
Dr Robyn Spence-Brown
​Monash University
Ms Sue Tolbert
Tasmania Department of Education
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