{"id":11393,"date":"2020-06-29T16:56:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/?p=11393"},"modified":"2020-10-02T09:54:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T09:54:40","slug":"spanish-the-most-popular-language-at-a-levels-for-the-first-time-according-to-british-council-language-trends-annual-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/2020\/06\/29\/spanish-the-most-popular-language-at-a-levels-for-the-first-time-according-to-british-council-language-trends-annual-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish is the most popular language at A-levels for the first time, according to British Council Language Trends annual report"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Spanish entries at A level exams in England have increased by almost 5% from 2018 making it the most popular language for the first time since A levels began. The records come from the Language Trends 2020 report which was published today by the British Council.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Between 2018 and 2019, entries for Spanish increased by 7.5% whilst French increased by almost 4%, according to official data on GCSE and A-level results from the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ). In total, 96.811 students took Spanish at GCSE in 2019 and 7.932 did the same at A-levels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The annual report underlines that, \u201cFrench looks set to be overtaken by Spanish as the most popular language by 2030, or earlier, if current trends continue,\u201d using the data provided by the Joint Council for Qualifications (JCQ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe figures for studying foreign languages are still small, but the fact that Spanish takes the first position for the first time in history, is indicative of profound changes. These changes tell us about the growing weight of the Spanish-speaking world and its correlation in a country used to thinking globally, such as Great Britain,\u201d said the director of the Instituto Cervantes in London, Ignacio Peyr\u00f3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language Trends is an annual survey of primary and secondary schools in England designed to gather information about the situation for language teaching and learning. Its aims are to assess the impact of policy measures in relation to languages and to analyse strengths and weaknesses based both on quantitative evidence and on views expressed by teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instituto Cervantes and the British Council signed a Memorandum of Understanding in November 2019 with the aim of strengthening the bilateral dialogue and promoting \u201cthe joint work\u201d so that each institution can \u201cachieve its strategic results more effectively\u201d.
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Spanish entries at A level exams in England have increased by almost 5% from 2018 making it the most popular language for the first time since A levels began. The records come from the Language Trends 2020 report which was published today by the British Council.\u00a0 Between 2018 and 2019, entries for Spanish increased by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[1436,1430,659,1439,1442,182],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11406,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11393\/revisions\/11406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cervantes.es\/londres\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}