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THESIS STATEMENT

We believe that foreign languages should not becompulsory in British schools because they areinessential, there are more important skills that should

be taught and learning a foreign language shouldbe a choice.

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OUTLINE

1. Foreign Languages are Inessential

2. More Important Skills

3. Choice

Conclusion

References

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FOREIGN LANGUAGES ARE

INESSENTIAL

ENGLISH

• A global advantage (Guardian, 2006)

• Most spoken language (Guardian, 2006)

• Speakers > 1.3 billion (Internet World Stats, 2011)

• Widely spoken/Official status in 101 countries (ESL,2012)

•

Internet users > 550 million (Internet World Stat,2011)

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MORE IMPORTANT SKILLS

Rate of illiteracy: Reading + Writing:

Best

Worst

3

2

1

4

United Kingdom

(Daily Mail, 2012)

UK pupils reading:

7th

25th

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MORE IMPORTANT SKILLS

• Numeracy + Literacy skills: 55-65y/o > 16-24y/o

• Young people: Reading skills: 22/24

Maths: 21/24

• 8.5mil adults’ maths skill=maths skill of 10y/o 

• Talent pool of highly skilled adults in England arelikely to fall in next few decades

(Daily Mail, 2013)

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COMPULSORY?

Reason why ppl believe FL should be compulsory isbecause employers values ppl who can speak > 1lang. (Molyneaux, G. 2010).

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CHOICE

(Molyneaux, G. 2010)

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CONCLUSION

No foreign languages should not be madecompulsory in British schools because its notimportant, there are more important skills that need

to be taught and it should be a choice for thelearner.

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REFERENCES

• Internet World Stats (2011). Internet World Users by Language. Retrieved February27, 2014 from http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats7.htm 

• ESL (2012). The Most Widely Spoken Languages. Retrieved February 27, 2014 fromhttp://blog.esl-languages.com/en/esl/most-spoken-languages-world/ 

• Daily Mail (2012). Illiterate Britain: One in five adults struggling to read and write and some can't even use a chequebook. Retrieved February 27, 2014 fromhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2122007/Illiterate-Britain-One-adults-

struggling-read-write-t-use-chequebook.html • Daily Mail (2013). Schools go backwards: Pupils are worse at maths and literacy

than their grandparents. Retrieved February 27, 2014 fromhttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2449481/Education-crisis-Pupils-worse-maths-literacy-grandparents.html 

• Guardian (2006). Why bother learning foreign languages?. Retrieved February 20,2014 fromhttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/oct/13/whybotherlearningforei

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