Advanced Hindi t course

Available course pattern

A standard 1.0 value unit is delivered over at least 55 hours and can be as long as 63 hours. To receive a course, students must complete at least the minimum number of hours and units over the whole minor and major – both requirements must be met. The number of units may vary according to the school timetable.

Course	Minimum number of hours per course	Number of standard 1 value units to meet course requirements
Minor	110 hours	2 units of a minimum of 55 hours
Major	220 hours	4 units of a minimum of 55 hours
Major	220 hours	3.5 units equivalent to at least 220 hours

Implementation Guidelines

Compulsory units

There are no compulsory BSSS accredited units in this course. There is the expectation of a progression in the level of fluency, difficulty and complexity of language use as students progress through the course.

Prerequisites for the course or units within the course

There are no prerequisites. However, Advanced courses are intended for students who have had considerably more exposure to the target language than the average high school student. (Board Policy 2.2.2.7)

Arrangements for students continuing study in this course

Students continuing this course from year 11 may not repeat any unit taken in the previous year.

Students continuing in this course from the previous course must study units not previously undertaken. Please refer to Duplication of Content rules below.

Duplication of Content

Duplication of Content Rules

Students cannot be given credit towards the requirements for a Year 12 Certificate for a unit that significantly duplicates content in a unit studied in another course. The responsibility for preventing undesirable overlap of content studied by a student rests with the principal and the teacher delivering the course. Substantial overlap of content is not permitted and students will only be given credit for covering the content once.

Duplication of Units

Units with identical or similar names in Continuing and Advanced courses are designed to be taught concurrently in a multilevel and multicourse classroom. There is, however, a substantial difference in depth and breadth of content and expectations according to the students’ specific level of proficiency in Hindi. The suggested patterns should be followed sequentially to avoid duplication.

Units from other courses

There are no units from other courses available in this course.

Relationship to other courses

This course does not contain content that overlaps with content in other BSSS accredited courses:

Subject Rationale

Learning Hindi languages widens horizons, broadens cognitive and cultural experience, and develops communicative and intercultural competence. It also opens up new perspectives for learners, not only in relation to other cultures and languages, but also in terms of their own language and cultural practices.

Learning Hindi strengthens intellectual and analytical capability and enhances creative and critical thinking. Students develop an understanding of the nature of language (including linguistic and stylistic features), of culture, and of the process of communication. They develop understanding of how values and culture shape world view. Learning Hindi extends the learner’s understanding of themselves, their heritage, values, culture, and identity. Students develop intercultural capability; they develop understanding of, and respect for, diversity and difference, and openness to different perspectives and experiences. Learning languages contributes to strengthening the community’s social, economic, and international development capabilities.

Students learn to reorganise their thinking to accommodate the structure of another language, they develop cognitive flexibility and problem-solving ability, which can be applied when problems and solutions are not evident, as well as when critical thinking and creative approaches are required.

Learning Hindi requires and improves intellectual disciplines and systematic study habits. These habits are characterised by effective planning and organisation, incorporating processes of self-management and self-monitoring.

Goals

All courses based on this Course Framework should enable students to:

enhance their capacity to communicate and interact effectively within and across languages and cultures, showing control over linguistic elements and an awareness of audience and purpose

understand the interrelationship of language and culture, and the importance of intercultural competence

acquire language learning strategies that can be applied in further studies

expand their post school options and meet the growing needs of business and industry for language skills and intercultural understanding

understand the variability of language use – how language changes with the context of situation and the context of culture (participants and their relationship, circumstances of communication)

Employ technology to enhance communication.

Language courses at Advanced level should also enable students to:

analyse and respond to literature and global issues in the target language.

Literacy

Learning languages develops overall literacy. It strengths literacy- capabilities that are transferable across languages (for example, the language being learnt and the learner’s first language), across domains of use (for example, the academic domain and the domains of home language use), and across learning areas.

Learning languages makes accessible to students’ additional literacy experiences. It strengthens language awareness and helps to develop a metalanguage, a language for thinking and talking about how language works.