{"id":954,"date":"2010-11-24T18:53:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-24T18:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=954"},"modified":"2010-11-28T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-28T15:00:50","slug":"the-return-of-the-language-gcse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/24\/the-return-of-the-language-gcse\/","title":{"rendered":"The return of the language GCSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Exam-room.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Exam-room.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Exam room\" width=\"162\" height=\"121\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-955\" \/><\/a>As reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/8155517\/Pupils-to-learn-a-language-in-GCSE-shake-up.html\">the Telegraph<\/a> today, foreign language GCSEs are making a return to the syllabus.<\/p>\n<p>The current government is \u2018overhauling\u2019 the education system and this means that many more pupils will be taking a GCSE in languages including Spanish, French and German. Languages are counted as one of five \u2018core\u2019 subjects which also include English, maths, science and a humanities subject. Interestingly, the language requirement also includes ancient languages, allowing for students to study Latin as well as more contemporary options such as Mandarin.<\/p>\n<p>I am, of course, in favour of people learning new languages. But although this policy seems like a good idea, as someone who has a GCSE in French and can barely speak a sentence in it, I have to wonder if it\u2019s going to be effective. Post-16, are students going to continue with their language studies or, like me, forget what they have learned only to regret it later?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As reported in the Telegraph today, foreign language GCSEs are making a return to the syllabus. The current government is \u2018overhauling\u2019 the education system and this means that many more pupils will be taking a GCSE in languages including Spanish, French and German. Languages are counted as one of five \u2018core\u2019 subjects which also include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,40],"tags":[910,4,5,25,219,90,911,327],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-language-acquisition","tag-foreign-language-gcse","tag-french","tag-german","tag-languages","tag-latin","tag-mandarin","tag-modern-language-gcse","tag-spanish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","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=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}