Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language to GCSE is considered optional – and not necessarily even encouraged – new research shows.

The findings suggest that disadvantaged students have been most affected by the national decline in language study since 2004, when GCSE languages ceased to be compulsory. In the academic year 2023-4, ...

Supporting the oracy needs of EAL learners in all their subjects and practical and sustainable strategies for teachers ...