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THESIS STATEMENT

We believe that foreign languages should not becompulsory in British schools because they areinessential, there are more important skills that should

be taught and learning a foreign language shouldbe a choice.



OUTLINE

1. Foreign Languages are Inessential

2. More Important Skills

3. Choice

Conclusion

References



FOREIGN LANGUAGES ARE

INESSENTIAL

ENGLISH

• A global advantage (Guardian, 2006)

• Most spoken language (Guardian, 2006)

• Speakers > 1.3 billion (Internet World Stats, 2011)

• Widely spoken/Official status in 101 countries (ESL,2012)

•

Internet users > 550 million (Internet World Stat,2011)



MORE IMPORTANT SKILLS

Rate of illiteracy: Reading + Writing:

Best

Worst

3

2

1

4

United Kingdom

(Daily Mail, 2012)

UK pupils reading:

7th

25th



MORE IMPORTANT SKILLS

• Numeracy + Literacy skills: 55-65y/o > 16-24y/o

• Young people: Reading skills: 22/24

Maths: 21/24

• 8.5mil adults’ maths skill=maths skill of 10y/o

• Talent pool of highly skilled adults in England arelikely to fall in next few decades

(Daily Mail, 2013)



COMPULSORY?

Reason why ppl believe FL should be compulsory isbecause employers values ppl who can speak > 1lang. (Molyneaux, G. 2010).



CHOICE

(Molyneaux, G. 2010)



CONCLUSION

No foreign languages should not be madecompulsory in British schools because its notimportant, there are more important skills that need

to be taught and it should be a choice for thelearner.



REFERENCES

• Internet World Stats (2011). Internet World Users by Language. Retrieved February27, 2014 from http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm

• ESL (2012). The Most Widely Spoken Languages. Retrieved February 27, 2014 fromhttp://blog.esl-languages.com/en/esl/most-spoken-languages-world/

• Daily Mail (2012). Illiterate Britain: One in five adults struggling to read and write and some can't even use a chequebook. Retrieved February 27, 2014 fromhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2122007/Illiterate-Britain-One-adults-

struggling-read-write-t-use-chequebook.html • Daily Mail (2013). Schools go backwards: Pupils are worse at maths and literacy

than their grandparents. Retrieved February 27, 2014 fromhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449481/Education-crisis-Pupils-worse-maths-literacy-grandparents.html

• Guardian (2006). Why bother learning foreign languages?. Retrieved February 20,2014 fromhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/oct/13/whybotherlearningforei

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