UK: Primary schools double language teaching

[Francis Hult]

Times Online

 

Primary schools double language teaching

 

The number of children learning foreign languages, including Japanese, at primary school has doubled in six years, government figures suggest. 

 

Children learn to speak the languages of France, Germany, China or even India, before many know how to find the countries on a map, at eight in ten primary schools in England. 

 

The number of primary schools teaching a second language is up from 70 per cent last year and 44 per cent in 2002. 

 

Lord Dearing's review of languages last year recommended that languages be obligatory in the primary curriculum after the Government scrapped the requirement for pupils to take a foreign language at GCSE. The Government aims to get all primary pupils learning a language by 2010. 

 

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article4218502.ece

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