GCSEs In Languages Should be Made Easier
“GCSE in language ‘too hard’,” says the Sun.
The Association of Language Learning, the Association of School and College Leaders and the Independent Schools’ Association “have “blasted” the decision of the Qualification and Curriculum Authority not to adjust the grading.
The Association of Real Schooling, the Higher Education In The Community Collective and a spokesman for the Union of Excellence In European Scholastic Fellowship all agree that learning a foreign language should reflect the speaker and their audience.
As such GCSE French students should make it clear if they are travelling to Paris, where a large lexicon and impeccable accent is required to get served even a cup of water in a cafe, or to a rural locale on the German border where a vocabulary in excess of 50 words is considered showing off and subversive.
Until the matter is cleared up, all Britons overseas are advised to stick with English as they are best able…
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February 21st, 2008 at 4:57 pm
dairy..dunno wherebouts you are..but one foreign language is compulsory where i am..
February 21st, 2008 at 11:55 am
absolute b****cks - they should be harder if anything! this country has a crap reputation with regard to learning other languages as it is and school age is the perfect age for kids to learn them to the best of their ability.
one foreign language should be compulsory for all children - communication in today’s world is just as important as mathematics and UK citizens have for too long been lazy, relying on other nations to speak English.