Students scared of foreign languages (UK)

[Paul B. Gallagher]

>From The Independent

STUDENTS 'SCARED' OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
By Sarah Cassidy, Education Correspondent

10 March 2003

Britain's brightest linguists are shunning university language degrees
because they believe that the subject is boring and difficult and are
terrified of speaking to foreigners in their languages.

A study for the Anglo-German Foundation found that students were "scared
to death" of the prospect of oral examinations at university while
several said they would feel "embarrassed or foolish" if they had to
speak spontaneously to French people in France.

Young people did not believe that a language degree would guarantee them
a good job on graduation and thought they could never complete with a
foreigner with fluent English in the jobs market.

...

Read the rest of the article at
<http://education.independent.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=385514>.

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