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Language Education in the School Curriculum - Issues of Access and Equity (Paperback)
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Language Education in the School Curriculum - Issues of Access and Equity (Paperback)
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There is widespread concern in all English speaking countries at
the rapid decline in study of languages. The promise of 'languages
for all' in the UK and North America in the 1970s marked a shift
from languages as elite subjects for the privileged few, but this
promise has not been fulfilled. This book explores the reasons for
and solutions to this decline. More importantly, it looks at how
these trends have been reversed in successful school programs and
the implications of this for language education policy makers. The
study draws on an analysis of data from 600 primary, secondary and
community languages schools over six years and from detailed case
studies in a representative sample of 45 successful schools. The
book proposes a range of strategies to address the decline: from
engaging classroom learning, assessment outcomes and embedding
languages as central in school curriculum on the one level, to a
mix of incentives and mandation for language study, especially at
upper secondary school level. The authors explore the impact of
learning languages on the thinking, educational experiences and
outcomes of young people across a range of ethnic backgrounds and
socioeconomic statuses. They show the importance of having equal
access to languages study in a world where young people will have
increasingly more diverse working lives and argue that the gap in
languages between policy and uptake is really a gap in the thinking
of policy makers and government.
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