Summary: Foreign languages to be taught at school...

This article is about the changes in the curriculums in some schools, it emphasizes that foreign language should be taught at age of seven in schools, introducing a “compulsory” language teaching.

The idea of this plan is to teach students more than one language, and it can include Mandarin, Latin and Greek; this is to help students to improve their language, and also to help them to make complete sentences and to produce better sounds at the time of speaking; all this is related to the necessity that we are having for the development on the communication around the world, we are more connected than we used to be some time ago. Also, it talks about changing the programs of some other areas such as Sciences, English and Math’s.

The project is very ambitious, because the reformed curriculum will make students to learn things from a very young age and to develop faster their skills, for example, they want that by the end of year 4, children should be listening and discussing things such as fiction and nonfiction topics.

Some people gave their opinion about the whole idea of changing the curriculum and teaching foreign languages at age of seven, they all agree with this notion, they thought that it was a marvelous idea and some of them even said that foreign language should be taught at an earlier age, not at the age of seven, like it is establish already.

This whole plan of reform the curriculum should be done and introduced in schools on September 2014.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jun/10/foreign-languages-compulsory-aged-7