For the purpose of the Authority’s Application for permission to enrol in a WACE languages course process, speakers of dialects and variants of a language are considered to be speakers of the standard language:
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei and Christ mas Island are considered Chinese-speaking countries/places;
Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Christmas Island and Cocos Island are considered Indonesian-speaking countries/places;
Speakers of Indonesian and speakers of Malay are considered to be speakers of both languages;
All 32 Francophone countries are considered French-speaking;
Germany, Austria and Switzerland are considered German-speaking countries; and
Italy and Switzerland are considered Italian-speaking countries.
There are three criteria against which the application for enrolment will be assessed:
Education;
Residency and/or time spent in country; and
Use of the language for communication outside the language classroom.