Sentence examples for taking a language from inspiring English sources

The number of students taking a language degree is at the lowest level in a decade.

But is technology alone enough to persuade 16 year-olds of the substantial benefits of taking a language further?

Since 2004, when studying a foreign language beyond age 14 became optional in state schools, the number of students taking a language at GCSE has dropped dramatically.

The number of students taking a language has dropped by a third since the government made them optional at GCSE six years ago.

Entries for A-level French and German fell by more than half between 1996 and 2012, while the numbers taking a language GCSE also plummeted.

After 2004, when the Labour government dropped languages as a compulsory subject at key stage 4, the proportion of pupils taking a language GCSE plummeted.

Our contribution is to show how firms interact by taking a language-based perspective on strategy to help understand the links between network, organizational and micro-levels of social construction.

A total of 302,500 took a language GCSE, compared with 321,000 last year and around 332,000 in 2013.

That number is slowly rising, but this year it was still only 44% of the cohort who took a language.

Next summer 54% of GCSE pupils are expected to take a language exam, the highest proportion since 2005, when the figure was 60%.

To that end, Middlebury College students are obligated to take a "language pledge" to speak only Arabic during their time in Alexandria, Egypt (the only exception being calls home).