VCE Indonesian Second Language study guide
VCE Indonesian Second Language · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
VCE Indonesian Second Language is a Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) study administered by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA). It is designed for students who already have some background in Indonesian - typically those who have lived in Indonesia, speak the language at home, or have studied it before entering VCE - and who wish to develop their literacy in the language alongside an understanding of Indonesian-speaking cultures. The VCE Indonesian Second Language study guide has 4 sections and about 1,636 words.
01Listening and Responding: Catching Meaning Under Time Pressure
Listening and responding asks you to extract information from spoken Indonesian - announcements, dialogues, interviews, phone messages - and answer in English or Indonesian depending on the question. The examiners are testing comprehension, not transcription: you need the gist, the specific details, and the speaker's attitude.
433 words, about 2 min02Reading and Responding: Text Types, Inference and Vocabulary in Context
Reading and responding presents authentic-style texts - advertisements, letters, articles, blogs, short stories, forms - and asks for literal comprehension, inference, and identification of purpose and audience. You must read for structure as well as words.
409 words, about 2 min03Writing: Task Fulfilment, Register and Cohesion
Writing requires you to produce a coherent Indonesian text of roughly 200–300 words in a specified form - a letter, article, speech, diary entry, review or report - for a specified audience. Marks are split between task fulfilment (content and form), range and accuracy of language, and appropriateness of register.
406 words, about 2 min04Oral Examination: The Conversation and the Discussion
The oral examination has two parts: a general conversation about your life, school, interests and plans, and a discussion based on a topic you have studied, often supported by a stimulus such as a picture or short text. Assessors reward communication, range and accuracy, pronunciation, and the ability to sustain and develop ideas rather than recite.
388 words, about 2 min