Queensland Academies Creative Industries (QACI) offers the opportunity for students to study one of three mainstream languages, French, Spanish, Mandarin.
Students must study a mainstream language for their Pre International Baccalaureate (IB) language programme.
The information provided here is applicable to students graduating in 2018 and 2019 following which a new syllabus will be implemented.
Language ab initio is a language acquisition course designed to provide students with the necessary skills and intercultural understanding to enable them to communicate effectively in a range of situations where the language studied is spoken. The course is designed for students who have very little or no prior experience with the language.
Language B is an additional language acquisition course designed for students with some previous learning of that language. This may be studied at either Standard Level (SL) or High Level (HL). The main focus of this course is on language acquisition and development of language skills through the study and use of a range of written and spoken material. Such material will extend from everyday oral exchanges to literary texts and will be related to the culture concerned. SL and HL are differentiated by the recommended number of teaching hours, the depth of syllabus coverage, the study of literature at HL, and the level of difficulty and demands of assessment and assessment criteria.