HSC Arabic Continuers case studies
HSC Arabic Continuers · Put your knowledge to work in context.
The HSC Arabic Continuers Stage 6 course is a New South Wales senior secondary subject for students who already have a working background in Arabic - typically heritage speakers who use the language at home or in the community - and who want formal recognition of that ability in their Higher School Certificate. It develops listening, reading, speaking and writing across five interrelated areas: the Arabic-speaking communities, family life and neighbourhood, people, places and events, issues in today's world, and the language skills and text types needed to handle authentic material. The HSC Arabic Continuers case studies are 5 cases and about 3,429 words.
1The Wedding Invitation That Split Two Households
Layla, 17, lives in Sydney with her Lebanese-born parents. Her cousin Rami is marrying a woman from a family her parents have never met.
696 words, about 3 min2The Neighbourhood Petition
In a western Sydney suburb, a local council plans to convert a disused hall into a men's overnight shelter for 30 people. The area has a large Arabic-speaking population, many of them first-generation migrants who arrived in the 1980s.
688 words, about 3 min3The Job Interview and the Family Expectation
Omar, 19, is in his first year of a commerce degree in Melbourne. He has been offered a cadetship with an accounting firm that requires him to move to Canberra for 12 months, starting in eight weeks.
749 words, about 4 min4Reading a Letter Between the Lines
A Year 12 student is analysing a short Arabic text for the Continuers examination. The text is a letter from an elderly aunt in Tripoli to her nephew in Sydney.
639 words, about 3 min5The Radio Interview About Language Loss
A community radio station in Sydney runs a weekly hour in Arabic. The producer has booked a guest, a university linguist, to discuss why third-generation children in Arabic-speaking households often answer in English even when spoken to in Arabic.
657 words, about 3 min