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(Mandarin) and Vietnamese) more likely to finish their studies before Year 12.
Table 3 - below: Number of students who completed a VCE Unit 4 Language course, by year
level undertaken, and eligible to graduate in 2018 (DET, 2019, p. 46) and eligible to graduate in 2018 (DET, 2019, p. 46)
Year Unit 4 undertaken
Language
3 53 538 594
4 43 267 314
3 33 200 236 11 70 72 153 0 49 75 124 1 46 56 103
0 22 32 54 25 271 221 517 172 2,075 2,733 4,980 3.5 41.7 54.9 100
With over 435,000 students studying languages, a large teacher workforce is required, while not all
Teachers of languages
Year 10
With over 435,000 students studying languages, a large teacher workforce is
required, while not all students are taught by qualified languages teachers,
students are taught by qualified languages teachers, most students do. Overall in 2018, a total of 1,918
most students are. Overall in 2018, a total of 1,918 languages teachers taught languages in Victorian government schools. Of these, 1,543 (80.4%) were qualified while 375 (19.6%) had no methodology qualification.
Year 11
Languages Victoria
Table 3: Number of students who completed a VCE Unit 4 Language course, by year level undertaken,
Year 12
Total
Chinese (Mandarin)
• Chinese First Language
• Chinese Language Culture and Society
• Chinese Second Language
• Chinese Second Language Advanced
110
32 0 36 42
2
0 2
47
2 45
200
9 191
249
11 238
Teachers of languages
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1,073
656 0 235 182
501
254 7 137 103
1,684
942 7 408 327
French
Japanese
• Japanese First Language
• Japanese Second Language
2
0 2
76
13 63
465
5 460
543
18 525
11
11 0 0
Vietnamese
• Vietnamese
• Vietnamese First Languages
• Vietnamese Second Language
292
0 227 65
106
0 73 33
409
11 300 98
German
Indonesian
• Indonesian First Language
• Indonesian Second Language
Italian
Greek
Arabic
Persian
Turkish
Other
Total
Percentage