Another weekend, another language
“A parallel education system of Saturday schools is helping bilingual families to pass their mother tongue down to their children. Could it inspire the rest of Scotland finally to embrace language learning?
Scottish children are notoriously reluctant to learn foreign languages. But while the lack of compulsory modern language-learning in Scottish schools continues to come under fire, a parallel system of language classes is thriving outside mainstream education. […]”
© TES, 15 July 2011
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