Australia has a unique range of language communities and language education needs. A variety of languages is currently offered to different groups of learners through diverse programs. Language teaching may be provided through bilingual education, limited-exposure programs, or compulsory language instruction. Federal and state education agencies, policies, and curriculum initiatives further complicate the language teaching situation and increase the need to coordinate policy with curriculum development. New developments in language teaching also make curriculum change desirable. The Australian Language Levels (ALL) Project is evolving from these influences. The ALL Project focuses on the coordination of change in language education by supporting and facilitating changes already occurring in language education, bringing coherence to the language field at the national level, and producing guidelines to assist in this process. To date, the project has produced two conceptual bases or frameworks for change: an organizational framework for describing language learning at different educational levels, and a curricular framework, or guidelines, for teachers and instructional developers. The curricular guidelines address the principles, goals, and activities of language learning. The curricular framework is deemed to be theoretically and methodologically applicable to the teaching of English as a second language as well as to foreign language instruction. (MSE)