LINGUIST List 16.3190
Fri Nov 04 2005
Media: BBC: School Language Decline Continues
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BBC: School language decline continues
Message 1: BBC: School language decline continues
Date: 04-Nov-2005
From: Karen Chung <karchung
ntu.edu.tw>
Subject: BBC: School language decline continues
BBC News: UK edition Thursday, 3 November 2005
School language decline continues
Learning a modern language beyond the age of 14 is now compulsory in
only a quarter of England's state secondary schools, a survey suggests.
In a similar survey a year ago, by the National Centre for Languages,
the figure was more than a third.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4404998.stm Karen Chung
http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/ http://lists.topica.com/lists/phonetics/
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