The lack of co-ordination between departments in schools which are teaching languages, English, Modern Foreign Languages and Classics.The fragmented and disjointed way in which languages are taught in junior and senior schools, both in the independent and state sector.The decline in the number of pupils learning languages nationally.The curriculum draws on the rich diversity of our multi-cultural and multi-lingual society here in Britain to help inspire a love of language and address the following key issues: However, the result is that the teaching of English can become mired in technical, and wearying, language. There is no question that the English language is remarkable – the product of conquest, migration and empire, combining words – and grammar – from Celtic, Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Viking, Norman French, Latin (again), ancient Greek and the languages of the British Empire. The teaching of ancient and modern languages in this country – whether European or Asian – is, at best, problematic and, at worst, declining towards extinction.
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