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August 20th, 2007The Independent reports that a further decline in the take-up of modern foreign languages will be revealed when GCSE results are published on Thursday. Figures will show the number of 16-year-olds taking French and German has slumped to its lowest level for more than a decade.
French entries will have more than halved since 2001 when 236,189 youngsters sat the exam. A similar picture will emerge in German, where numbers have already fallen by 44,822 to 90, 311. The only bright spot on the horizon is a growth in community languages, with more youngsters who have English as a second language studying their mother tongue at GCSE. Take-up of Urdu and Mandarin in particular is expected to have increased.
Read this article on the Independent website.
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