Insights to Japanese
language educationin Victorian schools
Kylie Farmer
kylieﬁona@gmail.com
April 2024

●Session Overview●●●Japanese education inVictorian schools
CLIL programs in Victorianschools
TJFL Language Assistants
Program
Q&A

Japanese language education in Victoria●Early childhood○○●

Government Primary Schools (Foundation - Year 6)○○●

20 kindergartens teaching Japanese 3hrs/ week
2 bilingual kindergartens teaching Japanese 12hrs/week

177 schools teaching Japanese - approximately 1 hr/week
2 bilingual schools teaching Japanese 12hrs/week

Government Secondary schools (Year 7- Year 12)○71 schools teaching Japanese approximately 2hrs/week

Total
government
school students
learning
Japanese= 80,3988

Source: https://www.vic.gov.au/early-childhood-language-program
https://www.education.vic.gov.au/PAL/languages-provision-in-victorian-government-schools-2020.pdf

Number of students learning languages in Victoriangovernment schools, 2020: Primary and Secondary

Source:https://www.education.vic.gov.au/PAL/languages-provision-in-victorian-government-schools-2020.pdf

CLIL in Victorian schools
Integrating Learning of Content and Language
For example:
Learning and using Japanese to teach:-Year 7 Science (full year program) **Year 9 History (one term unit)**Year 8 Visual Arts (3 week unit)*
Year 3 - 6 Science (full year program)**Year 1 - 6 Humanities (3 week unit)*

Note:
All Content taught is based on VictorianCurriculum* Some schools include a CLIL unit as part oftheir Japanese lessons**Some schools teach the CLIL lesson inaddition to their Japanese lessons

MLTAV CLIL Network
The Modern Language Teachers Association of Victoria (MLTAV) facilitates theCLIL Network which provides teachers interested in or currently implementing
CLIL with:-Professional Learning
Research updates
Resources> workshops and webinars> e-newsletter> websitehttps://clillanguageteachers.weebly.com/

https://clil.education.unimelb.edu.au/ajf/

These resources aim to support teachers of Japanese to work with Content and Language
Integrated Learning (CLIL) using content relevant to the Australian Curriculum, that also
recognises the important contributions of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories andcultures to that knowledge. This has been enabled through resources originally created forteachers using the Australian Curriculum through the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
School Curricula project.
It is an initiative of the CLIL Teacher Education Lab, inspired by the work of the Aboriginal andTorres Strait Islander School Curricula project, and sponsored by the Australia-JapanFoundation.

TJFL Language
Assistants ProgramProgram information●●

March and August program each year
3 week or 4 week option○○

3 weeks: 3 - 24 August 2024 $2090
4 weeks: 3 - 31 August 2024 $2420

Program fee includes:●●●●

Placement in Victorian school as aJapanese language assistant
Host family accommodation
3 meals/day
Transport to/from:○○school dailyairport

August 2024 applications now open
Apply online by 13 May
https://forms.gle/F5iajjPddVri2ry36
All participants will need to arrange:-Police check
Visa
Insurance
Flights

More details:

email Kylie Farmer
kylieﬁona@gmail.com