04/07/2019
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📢The 2019 Language Trends Survey has just been released (Full report in comments) - What do you think about the findings, let us know?🗣
Tough exams are discouraging pupils in England from learning languages, according to the new British Council survey. The new GCSE and A'level exams, teachers feel, are discouraging pupils from learning languages as they are seen as being a hard subject in which to get a good grade.
Whilst many primary children are enjoying learning a second language, the main findings were that pupils at a third of primary schools, that allocate a set time for languages each week, are not receiving that time. Languages are often taught ad hoc, making it difficult for them to achieve the expected outcomes at the end of Year 6. Language teaching is often seen as "lower priority than other subjects" and during SATs exams may be "pushed out of the timetable".
This year’s survey was carried out from January to March 2019 and gathered evidence from 776 primary schools (up from 692 in 2018) and 845 secondary schools, of which 715 were state-funded and 130 independent – slightly more responses than in 2018.
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