{"id":1511,"date":"2012-06-16T17:46:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T17:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2012-06-11T17:48:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T17:48:51","slug":"languages-compulsory-from-age-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/16\/languages-compulsory-from-age-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"Languages compulsory from age seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/25\/scottish-schools-language-overhaul\/ \">news that Scottish schools<\/a> are considering overhauling the language curriculum, English primary schools are following suit.<\/p>\n<p>The education secretary, Michael Gove, is expected to announce that learning a language will be compulsory from the age of seven for English children. In addition, there will be a \u201cnew focus\u201d on spelling and grammar. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg] welcomed the government&#8217;s ideas, saying: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s absolutely right. Children will get a love of languages if they start them young.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Under Mr Gove&#8217;s plans, primary schools could offer lessons in Mandarin, Latin and Greek, as well as French, German and Spanish.<br \/>\nThe Department for Education said that where English teaching was concerned, the aim was to ensure that pupils left primary school with high standards of literacy. (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-18384536\">BBC News<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the news that Scottish schools are considering overhauling the language curriculum, English primary schools are following suit. The education secretary, Michael Gove, is expected to announce that learning a language will be compulsory from the age of seven for English children. In addition, there will be a \u201cnew focus\u201d on spelling and grammar. [Shadow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,40],"tags":[123,25,933,1135],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-english","category-language-acquisition","tag-language-learning","tag-languages","tag-languages-in-schools","tag-primary-languages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1513,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/1513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}