ANALYSIS FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEACHING: Tongue-Tied: Must the UK Always Be a Nation of Language Dunces? Europe? ; L the Government's New Commitments to Language Teaching in Schools May Be Too Little, Too Late, to Undo the Damage of Years of Neglect

Richard Garner Education Editor, The Independent (London, England)

HOW ON earth can we reverse the decades of decline that have left Britain's children at the bottom of Europe's language learning league?

Charles Clarke, the Secretary of State for Education, is the man charged with the mission. His task is to ensure that the next generation leaves school equipped with a foreign language qualification.

A government blueprint, published yesterday, will concentrate on boosting language learning in the primary school sector by entitling all children aged seven and above to learn a language at school.

At the launch of the strategy, to be implemented by the end of the decade, Mr Clarke was asked if it would not be better to …

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