30 The Linguist Vol/57 No/2 2018
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OPINION & COMMENT
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We've been wringing our hands for ages.
We'll go on wringing our hands. Sadly,
to no avail. The dire situation of modern
language teaching and learning is going
to get even worse. It's a crying shame.
It's a disaster. It's a tragedy. Whole
generations of young people are being
deprived of the life-enhancing possibilities
of being able to communicate in a
language other than their own and of
discovering the variety and richness of
other cultures.
Despite the efforts of huge
numbers of individuals and
myriad pressure groups,
the government continues
to ignore the clamour for
language skills to be central to the
educational curriculum at all levels. I've never
known such a dismal prospect since I started
language teaching in the mid 60s, when
foreign languages really were an important
part of a rounded education. I despair.
David Smith FCIL
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Crossword solution
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A moment of despair
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