VCE Armenian case studies
VCE Armenian · Put your knowledge to work in context.
VCE Armenian is a Victorian Certificate of Education language study, administered by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA), that is offered across Units 1 to 4. It suits students who want to develop their skills in Armenian language and culture within the VCE framework, whether they are continuing speakers or learners building proficiency. The VCE Armenian case studies are 5 cases and about 2,823 words.
1Choosing Register for a Community Radio Interview
You are a first-year Armenian student volunteering at a Melbourne community radio station. The station asks you to introduce a visiting Armenian-Australian poet on a program aimed at second-generation listeners aged 15–25 who understand spoken Armenian but rarely read it.
581 words, about 3 min2Diagnosing a Misunderstanding in a Family Conversation
Two students, Ani and Gor, role-play a family scene for Unit 2 assessment. Ani plays a grandmother who asks her grandson to 'close the window before the neighbours complain.' Gor's character replies with a sentence Ani interprets as refusal.
556 words, about 3 min3Adapting a Folk Tale for a Year 11 Audience
Your Unit 3 class must present a traditional Armenian folk tale to a Year 11 audience at your school. The tale you chose runs about 900 words in the version you found, uses a repeated formulaic opening and closing, includes a talking fox, and ends with a moral about hospitality.
562 words, about 3 min4Deciding How to Render an Idiom in Translation
For Unit 4 you are translating a short contemporary Armenian story into English. One paragraph contains an idiomatic expression in which a character 'eats another person's salt,' used to describe someone who has accepted hospitality and therefore owes loyalty.
549 words, about 3 min5Planning an Oral Presentation Under Conflicting Constraints
Your Unit 4 oral assessment asks you to present a two-minute argument in Armenian on whether diaspora communities should prioritise heritage-language schools. The rules: you must take a clear position, support it with two reasons, acknowledge one counter-argument, and respond to it.
575 words, about 3 min