students should be made to learn a foreign language

[swatiraohnlu]

High school students don't know a lot of things about what they do with their lives-- that doesn't mean we should put off letting them choose between Statistics and Calculus until they decide what business they want to go into. I really wish they would've done more foreign language stuff when I was a little kid, though.

DO you think students should be made to learn a foreign language?

 

[swatiraohnlu]

It's difficult to support the theory all children should learn a foreign language when most appear to be so woefully inadequate in their native tongue.

All learning builds upon previous learning: the lack of emphasis on teaching proper English to American schoolchildren has engendered a nation of illiterate college graduates. I'm not sure how it got to this point, but today's children never learn the finer nuances of grammar, punctuation or sentence construction in their own language.

 

[sunandaC]

Learning foreign languages are optional these days and depends upon personal interest although if this is made compulsory this is definitely gonna act as an add on to your personality

 

[dimpy.handa]

Although most schools teach children at least one language up to their GCSE's, I think that all school students should be made to take a GCSE in a foreign language. The state of language education in Britain isn't great, and we have one of the worst reputations when it comes to being able to speak other languages when abroad. I did my GCSE's three years ago and took both German and French, and although they are far from the easiest subjects, I believe that doing them gives you an (admittedly limited) grounding in the language.

 

[nidzi_MP]

It should be up to the individual to decide what is useful for them to study. A student may not want a job that would need a foreign language so basically its upon their interest.

 

[dimpy.handa]

It is true that there is a little possibility that a few students will have these allegedly talented linguistic abilities. However, students have other subjects to learn rather than foreign language that is an imperative course in the educational curriculum and has a larger priority than any other subjects. When students learn compulsory foreign languages in school, they will have to be study these subjects less and less. If the government necessitates and obliges schools to teach a foreign language, our students are earning a severe drawback; our students will not be able to put in the amount of effort on they used to put in rudimentary, essential subjects mentioned before. So this causes a severe inefficiency in our educational curriculum. Just because we need to specialize our education for the very few "talented", we cannot possibly sacrifice our whole educational system for our students.