Living Languages has been researching for two years now regarding the value of learning a foreign language, and they revealed in a report that the United Kingdom is facing serious issues on the subject of foreign language learning.

The United Kingdom plays a pivotal role in the global community, and it has been a melting pot of cultures for many years. Despite the presence of several immigrant communities, the country’s native population is still composed of monoglots.

Various concerned groups, including the media, want to find what is holding the nation back from learning other languages. The British Academy and British newspaper; The Guardian, launched a joint study called “the Case for Language Learning” and with the report from Living Languages, they found the major causes why the UK is behind in foreign language learning and the consequences for the nation:

– The schools’ approach to learning a language as the means to boost the students’ careers is wrong. According to University of Oxford professor Katrin Kohl, schools should emphasize that gaining language skills involves communicative rewards, cultural knowledge as well as intellectual challenges.

-As of 2013 there are about 100 languages that are spoken in the United Kingdom and many think that speaking so many languages creates hostility and division. However, the chair of the University Council of Modern Languages, Jocelyn Wyburd said that if they could harness the country’s multilingualism, it would be greatly beneficial for cross-cultural communication and their schools. It was also noted that about one third of the people who are not native English speakers, do not take qualification tests in their native language either. More.

See: Day News

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