UK: Children abandon languages after GCSE requirement stopped

[Francis Hult]

Times Online

 

Children abandon languages after GCSE requirement stopped

 

A drive to get children learning languages in primary school has been undermined by the scrapping of compulsory languages at GCSE, researchers have found. 

 

The findings of the first major study into the impact of language lessons in primary schools, suggest that teachers are spending huge amounts of time and resources trying to get teenagers to carry on learning a modern language beyond 14. 

 

The government introduced modern language classes in primary schools in 2002 and aims to make them compulsory by 2011. It wants to increase the number of people studying languages once they leave school. 

 

Full story:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/education/article6650995.ece

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