by cristahazell | Dec 30, 2021 | News
New visa requirements mean that EU students will go elsewhere, writes Karen Brandes, while Brigid Hoffmann worries about the consequences for language learning. The slump in school trips to the UK described in your article does not surprise me at all (‘Almost...
by cristahazell | Dec 30, 2021 | News
Groups from the continent are going elsewhere, tour operators say, deterred more by passport and visa rules than the pandemic. Post-Brexit changes to Britain’s immigration rules have triggered an unprecedented collapse in bookings for school trips from the...
by cristahazell | Dec 13, 2021 | News
Bilingual people engage the same brain region that monolingual individuals use to put together words—even when combining different languages. Billions of people worldwide speak two or more languages. (Though the estimates vary, many sources assert that more...
by cristahazell | Dec 10, 2021 | News
Schools in Wales could have fewer than 100 French and German GCSE entries by 2030, a report has found. The Language Trends Wales report, which reviews foreign language teaching, called for a national strategy on languages amid a drop in GCSE entries. The...
by cristahazell | Dec 10, 2021 | News
Children who do not learn other languages risk missing out on career opportunities and life experiences, according to linguists in Wales. The Language Trends Wales report, which reviews foreign language teaching, called for a national strategy on languages amid...
by cristahazell | Dec 10, 2021 | News
Modern languages in the UK is at a crucial stage in its development, write Institute of Modern Languages Research director Professor Charles Burdett and Professor Claire Gorrara, dean of research and innovation at Cardiff University. If the discipline is to ‘thrive...
