Fwd: [Edling] UK: French is no longer enough

[Harold Schiffman]

 Forwarded From: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


Guardian



French is no longer enough


Britain is multilingual yet there are few teachers of community
languages and even fewer training courses  From right to left on the
whiteboard Shazia Siddique writes the names of the five seasons in
Urdu - yes there are five, including the rainy season - and explains
to her attentive class of year 9s that by the end of the lesson they
should be able to read, write and speak about them fluently. Her class
in Lister community school in east London is very much an exception to
the rule and, based on present trends, that is unlikely to change. A
new report published by Ofsted found that in 2007 just 35 individuals
were training to teach Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, Mandarin, Punjabi,
Turkish and Urdu, and that no courses existed for training to teach
Gujurati.



Full story:

http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2266120,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=8




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