Foreign Languages in the UK media

• 2015 TES: Far too few recruits for teacher-training in FL.
• 2015 Oregon Live: Oregon schools succeed in EAL by teaching academic English explicitly
• 2014 Guardian: (Only) 38% of Europeans can speak English
• 2014 Guardian: FL numbers falling fast in HE, including postgraduates.
• 2013 Guardian: Task-based and/or grammar-based teaching?
• 2011 Independent: Newbury Park Primary School teaches 40 languages
• 2011 BBC: FL teaching poor in secondary schools (OFSTED)
• 2010 BBC: A debate about FL in the Lords
• 2010 BBC: Numbers still declining, and boys excelling, in French, Spanish and Computing
• 2010 TES: FL suffer from too little time
• 2009 Independent: FL teachers are hard to recruit
• 2008 PDF: A survey of FL provision in the USA
• 2007 BBC: FL teachers have relatively poor degree classes.
• 2007 TES: Pupils say French is one of the worst-taught subjects.