Sweden: Early English learning comes under academic attack

[Francis Hult]

The Local

 

Early English learning comes under academic attack

 

A Liberal Party proposal to make English language learning obligatory in schools from the first grade has been slammed by members of the Swedish Academy who view it as an "unnecessary reinforcement of the status of English." 

 

The proposal to introduce English early into the classroom has been met with criticism from the Swedish Academy's permanent secretary Peter Englund and his predecessor Horace Engdahl in an article in newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.

 

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