{"id":703,"date":"2008-07-15T14:25:37","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T13:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/15\/primary_school_languages\/"},"modified":"2008-07-15T14:25:37","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T13:25:37","slug":"primary_school_languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"Language teaching in primary schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past six years the number of children in primary schools learning foreign languages has doubled, according to a report in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/education\/article4218502.ece\">The Times<\/a>. So it appears that the UK government might just achieve its aim that all primary school pupils are learning a language by 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular language by far is French, which is taught by 89% of primary schools. German is taught by just 9% of schools, and Italian, Chinese, Japanese or Urdu are by fewer than 3%. Over 4,000 primary school teachers with a language specialism have been trained, and thousands more will be trained by 2010, at least that&#8217;s what the government hopes.<\/p>\n<p>A review of languages in schools carried out last year by Lord Dearing recommended that languages be made compulsory at primary level. This hasn&#8217;t been implemented yet.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think the study of foreign languages should be compulsory in schools? Is it compulsory in your country? If not, do plenty of people study languages anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past six years the number of children in primary schools learning foreign languages has doubled, according to a report in The Times. So it appears that the UK government might just achieve its aim that all primary school pupils are learning a language by 2010. The most popular language by far is French, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}