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- Subscribe by Email The Heritage Languages Draft Courses of Study in Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Indonesian and Korean are now available for consultation.
The consultation period on the draft courses will be from 19 October to 30 November 2009. Please complete the online survey here.
Two new documents have been published relating to the development of Heritage languages courses in Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, Indonesian and Korean. Both are available on the National news page.
These are:
BOS 30/08 (Vol 17 No 3)
Amendments to Stage 6 Languages Background Speakers syllabuses in Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese and Korean
The Board wishes to advise teachers of minor amendments to the Stage 6 Languages Background Speakers syllabuses in Chinese, Indonesian, Japanese and Korean.
The amended syllabuses and a summary of changes will be available by the beginning of Term 3 2008 on the Board of Studies website.
The amended syllabuses will be effective for the HSC examination in 2009.
The website will contain:
Effective: 2009 HSC examination
Contact:
Dr Margaret Silink
Inspector, Languages
(02) 9367 8152
margaret.silink@bos.nsw.edu.au
BOS 19/08 (Vol 17 No 2)
The Board wishes to advise teachers and students that the song 'Master of the Future', in Master of the Future by Da You Luo, has been withdrawn from the list of HSC Course Prescriptions for 2009–2013.
Effective: Commencement of 2009 HSC course
BOS 75/01 (Vol 10 No 6)
The Board wishes to advise that the eligibility rule for entry to some Stage 6 Languages courses has been revised. The revision applies to those Continuers courses where a Background Speakers course also exists in that language.
Continuers and Background Speakers courses currently co-exist in Chinese, Indonesian/Malay, Japanese, and
Korean.
BOS 81/01 (Vol 10 No 6)
The Board wishes to advise that proposed changes to the extracts set for intensive study for Extension Courses for HSC 2003 in Chinese, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese and Spanish have been posted on the Board's website at www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au. The Office would welcome feedback on the proposed changes by 1st February 2002.
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BOS 40/00 (Vol 9 No 6)
As a result of community consultation, the implementation of the use of simplified characters only in texts, questions and tasks in the Chinese Background Speakers HSC external examination will be delayed for a period of 4 years, up to and including the 2004 HSC examination. In the interim, the Board wishes to notify teachers of the following amendment to the Chinese Background Speakers Stage 6 Syllabus.
