Plurilingual and Intercultural Education Debate
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Baroness Hooper
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Plurilingual and Intercultural Education
Baroness Hooper Excerpts(2 years, 1 month ago)
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Baroness Hooper (Con)
My Lords, given that English is the most spoken language in the world and that Spanish, as a first language, is the second most spoken language, will my noble friend reassure me that priority will always be given to the teaching of Spanish?
Baroness Barran (Con)
I thank my noble friend for her question. I am sure she will be pleased, as I am, to note that Spanish is now the second most popular modern foreign language at GCSE with almost 110,000 entries in the academic year 2020-21.