The drop in entries nationally is unsurprising given that languages are perceived as difficult subjects and as many pupils start language learning in earnest at secondary school due to varying levels of language learning at primary school.
The mystery is why more affluent districts that are willing to pay for gifted football coaches aren't starting language instruction earlier, particularly in areas with significant immigrant populations.
Decide on a starting language.
And have you started a language program?
This year the Turks have abolished the death penalty and started easing language restrictions on their Kurdish minority.
Soon after he arrived, Madani started German language class.
Structured data were collected relating to language, social and emotional development using three instruments; The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), the abbreviated Sure Start Language Measure and a two-item language screen.
o The Sure Start Language Measure, [ 45] a 50-item word checklist based on the McArthur Communicative Development Inventory [ 46] the measure which is rapidly becoming the 'industry standard' for the description of children's early expressive language [ 47].
For example, 9/11 (82%) children who were able to say fewer than 10 words from the Sure Start Language Measure (SSLM) were reported to have a total spoken vocabulary of fewer than 50 words.
And while in all the other nations, children started studying languages in primary school, Britain was alone in starting teaching languages in secondary school.
