VCE Vietnamese Second Language study guide
VCE Vietnamese Second Language · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
VCE Vietnamese Second Language is a Victorian Certificate of Education study for students learning Vietnamese as a second language, delivered under the study design published by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority. The current accreditation period runs for Units 1 and 2 from 2019 and for Units 3 and 4 from 2020, and the study design document itself is marked as updated January 2020. The study is organised into four units. Units 1 and 2 are school-based and typically completed in the first year; Units 3 and 4 are school-based with an external examination at the end, and together they contribute to the Australian Tertiary Admission Rank. Topics on this exam: Units 1 and 2 coursework (school-based assessment) and Units 3 and 4 coursework and external examination (school-based assessment and examination specifications). The VCE Vietnamese Second Language study guide has 2 sections and about 844 words.
01Units 1 and 2: Foundations of Vietnamese Language and Culture
Units 1 and 2 build the base for everything that follows: the sound system, the writing system, core grammar, and the cultural knowledge that makes meaning intelligible. School-based assessment here typically takes the form of listening, speaking, reading and writing tasks plus cultural research. You must understand tones and tone marks , initial and final consonants , vowel clusters and diphthongs , the personal pronoun system (which encodes age, status and relationship rather than gender only), classifiers (loại từ) such as cái, con, chiếc, quyển , word order (Subject–Verb–Object with modifiers after the noun), tense and aspect markers ( đã, đang, sẽ, rồi ), and sentence particles ( không, chưa, nhé, ạ ) that carry politeness and question meaning. Tone confusion in writing.
452 words, about 2 min02Units 3 and 4: Text Analysis, Argument and Examination Technique
Units 3 and 4 move from competence to interpretation and argument. Coursework and the external examination require you to understand written and spoken texts (articles, interviews, stories, announcements), identify purpose, audience, tone and register , summarise and compare viewpoints, and produce your own persuasive and informative writing plus a detailed study response. You also analyse language features : word choice, rhetorical questions, repetition, emotive vocabulary, formal versus colloquial register ( ạ, dạ, thưa versus slang), and the use of idioms ( thành ngữ ) and proverbs ( tục ngữ ). Answering in English.
392 words, about 2 min