Oral question asked in the House of Commons, by Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston (Labour). It was answered on Thursday, 26 June 2008 on behalf of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.
Foreign Languages (Universities)
- Question
- Will the Minister take another close look at the curriculum in our secondary schools? We need to ensure that foreign language teaching not only helps comprehension and enables students to converse when they go abroad, but equips them with the building blocks and grammatical structures that they can use when they go to university to study foreign languages as an academic subject.
- Answer
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I think it is a question of balance. I think that the development of language-based courses that focus on communication produces exactly the skills that employers and others want and is also more likely to entice young people to take up the study of foreign languages. Nevertheless, we should not ignore the reality that those wishing to study a language in the longer term, at degree level, will need that grammatical base.
Secondary information
- Type
- Oral question
- Reference
- 478 c483-4
- Session
- 2007-08
- Oral question type
- Supplementary
- Chamber / Committee
- House of Commons chamber
- Subjects
- Curriculum Languages Higher education Secondary education Admissions
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