VCE Vietnamese First Language case studies
VCE Vietnamese First Language · Put your knowledge to work in context.
VCE Vietnamese First Language is a senior secondary subject in the Victorian Certificate of Education, the school-leaving qualification awarded in Victoria, Australia. It is designed for students who already use Vietnamese with considerable fluency - typically those who have grown up speaking it at home, have lived or been schooled in a Vietnamese-speaking environment, or otherwise treat Vietnamese as a first or near-first language - and who want formal recognition of that ability within their senior studies. The VCE Vietnamese First Language case studies are 5 cases and about 2,578 words.
1The Detailed Study That Collapses Under Questioning
Linh has chosen her Detailed Study topic: the portrayal of migration in three Vietnamese short stories. She has a 10-minute oral presentation followed by 5 minutes of discussion, and she has rehearsed a polished script that runs 11 minutes.
532 words, about 3 min2The Listening Task Where the Detail Is in the Tone
Students hear a 3-minute recording twice: a young woman, Mai, talking to a friend about leaving her job in a garment factory to open a small noodle stall. The surface content is positive - 'giờ mình tự do hơn', 'thu nhập cũng ổn'.
477 words, about 2 min3Reading the Unreliable Narrator in a 400-Word Extract
An extract of about 400 words is printed. The narrator, a 15-year-old boy, describes the day his father left.
463 words, about 2 min4The Persuasive Piece That Forgets Its Audience
The writing task: write a 400–500 word letter to the editor of a local newspaper arguing that a planned apartment block should include public green space. The stimulus gives facts: 320 apartments, 40% of buyers expected to be families with children, the nearest park 2.3 km away, and the developer's estimate that green space would add 4% to construction cost.
556 words, about 3 min5The Language Analysis Where the Student Summarises Instead of Analysing
Students analyse a 250-word opinion piece arguing that a local market should stay open later. The piece contains: a rhetorical question in the opening ('Ai trong chúng ta chưa từng mua rau lúc chợ đã tắt đèn?'); the inclusive pronoun 'chúng ta' five times; a single statistic ('hơn 60% tiểu thương muốn mở cửa đến 9 giờ'); an emotive verb 'tàn nhẫn' applied to the current closing time; and a concessive move ('Dĩ nhiên, ai cũng hiểu khó khăn của…') followed immediately by 'nhưng'.
550 words, about 3 min