Modern languages in schools are 'close to extinction'

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become a quest of minorities, educator warns teachers of languages ??

modern languages ??are endangered in British schools, a primary school teacher is to warn teachers.

Anthony Seldon, a pioneer in educational innovation and the head of Wellington College, language teachers say that their purpose is more work than it was for a century.

Learn French, German or Spanish is becoming a research minorities, such as learning from Greek into Latin and ancient, that tell a conference convened by the Network of Schools - a Partnership 5500 schools across the UK and abroad - at the University of Warwick. Note that, despite being more multicultural than ever, the UK has a "Little Britain", the attitude, threatening the international competitiveness and partnerships abroad.

The number of students taking GCSE French and German has halved in the last 16 years. This summer, 154,221 students were French, while in 1995, 350,027 did. Some 60,887 students took GCSE German this summer, compared to 129,386 in 1995. The number of students taking A-levels in French and German by nearly half between 1996 and 2010. Even adoption by China decreased during this period, from 2234 to 2104 students.

Seldon, who is also the biographer of Tony Blair say that nobody is willing to take responsibility for the decline: "The government is looking into schools to address school boards say the consideration of the items are too difficult. jury that the government should solve it. If we allow much longer without drastic measures, which have passed the tipping point. "

earlier this month, Michael Gove, the education minister, told the Guardian that he wanted the children to begin learning a foreign language from the age of five. Work tried to foreign languages ??compulsory from the age of seven early last year, but legislation was not passed by Parliament was dissolved ahead of general elections.

Seldon is encouraging teachers to broaden the range of languages ??to include Arabic, Mandarin and Urdu. It will advocate for languages ??that are taught in other subjects, and suggests some schools to invite business people, especially those involved in exports, to make students learning languages.

• "Our record in language learning is only bad in the developed world", ie. "We can not just assume the world will learn English to welcome us. This is a problem for society as a problem for schools only."

argue that there is a widespread perception in schools that is more difficult to get good grades in languages ??other issues.

"We must change this emergency. We run the risk of becoming very insular and isolated from Britain and abroad ... is becoming Little Britain".

John Newton, director of Taunton, a public school in Somerset, said the proportion of students at a * s in languages ??at GCSE and A-level was much lower than in other issues. "Children grow up thinking that dominates the airwaves Britannia -. What is wrong is "
Meanwhile, the best grades at GCSE and do not necessarily indicate intelligence, the philosopher AC Grayling, who has set up a private university college in question, he said.

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