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EDUCATION minister Jane Davidson said new methods of teaching foreign languages to primary school children in Wales were proving a success. Pilot projects were launched as part of the Assembly ...

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PUPILS in Welsh primary schools should be offered foreign language lessons from the age of seven, it is claimed today. The move to create a ‘trilingual nation’ would also boost English and Welsh ...

The study, by Katherine Richardson from Nottingham University, is based on the views and experiences of foreign language lessons of 335 pupils who were in their final term of primary school (Year 6), ...

IN 2006 fewer than one in three pupils in Wales entered modern foreign language exams, compared with 68% in England, the lowest figure in more than 10 years. IN 2006 fewer than one in three pupils in ...

In a damning report published today, it was claimed that French, German and Spanish classes often descended into little more than rote learning to prepare pupils for exams. The education watchdog said ...

Modern languages lessons will be available for pupils in every primary school in England by the end of the decade, the government said. A target for an entitlement to language lessons for every child ...

Primary school pupils will begin learning foreign languages from the age of seven under separate proposals from Miss Morris due to be in place by 2010. Schools will be given a choice of which ...

It’s estimated that up to 7,000 different languages are spoken around the world. 90% of these languages are used by less than 100,000 people. Over a million people converse in 150-200 languages and 46 ...

A campaign for primary school pupils to start learning a foreign language from the age of seven has been launched by the Welsh Conservatives. Currently it is compulsory in Wales for pupils to begin ...

Many children are being subjected to "boring" language lessons in which they are repeatedly taught the basics such as how to count to 10 or say "bonjour", a study has found. Youngsters in the first ...