Language Class Students Placement in Victoria’s ...
Shaoming Zhou and Ruonan Zeng
Abstract:The demography of school-level Chinese studies student cohort has been a popular topic since early 2000，which hints the arduous growing of number of local young talents who can achieve a high-level proficiency of this language.Following the development of Australia-China relationship，and its profound influence in Australia national defence，foreign trade，and domestic job market，fostering local school graduates who are able to acquire sufficient language for communication，and encouraging them to pursue further study in this language at tertiary level laid in the centre of Victorian school-level language policies.The hereafter commission to the Late Jane Orton from Australia China Relations Institute yielded the introduction of a new VCE Chinese studies from early 2017，VCE Chinese Language Culture and Society.This article is to investigate if the design of the new VCE Chinese study can address the issues brought out in Orton’s 2016 report.Within the course of two years’provision，some issues become visible，and thus this chapter propose a review of the study design and a more straightforward and feasible definition of L2 learners，as Orton suggested in her report.
Keywords:Demography;student cohort;L2 Learners;VCE Chinese Language Culture and Society;Orton’s 2016 report