Sentence examples for primary school language from inspiring English sources

With school languages deep in the doldrums, and new initiatives, including primary school language study, yet to feed through, what can universities do to keep departments viable and the subjects alive?

It recommended that secondary schools think urgently how they could best build on the advances in primary school language teaching and learning.

Why, then, did the coalition scrap compulsory primary school languages almost as soon as they came to power?

The mapping was to collect information on primary school students' strongest language and academic performance, and the teacher's ethnicity and second language abilities.

The number of primary schools teaching languages has been increasing in response to a target set by the previous government., though school inspectors say headteachers' monitoring of language provision can be weak.

As soon as I left primary school, my foreign languages teacher decided I might benefit from dedicated attention.

"The role of technology at home is potentially damaging children's communication skills with their parents who are using it as an electronic babysitter," says Andrews. "More and more children are coming into primary school with their spoken language as an issue so we are using technology in the classroom to record their language as a way of getting them talking to their parents".

Lila, who has had no education since primary school, grasps a third language, that of coding.

But even if they didn't, this does not preclude a primary school from tackling homophobic language.

Primary school pupils whose first language isn't English have outperformed native speakers in central London for the first time ever in national primary school tests, while pupils from the poorest backgrounds in England achieved their best-ever results.

Implications and recommendations for primary school educators and Chinese language teachers are discussed.