UK foreign language students often leave school barely conversational in the languages they study, according to a new study from the Guardian. The survey polled 1,001 students and former students to gauge their attitudes toward learning foreign languages and their experiences with the UK school sys...

Earlier this year, a report showed that in 1 out of 9 British schools, English is no longer the language spoken at home for the majority of students. Now, in a proposal that’s sure to get people talking, a secondary school in Leeds has announced that they plan to teach English as though it wer...

New statistics released last week show that in 1 out of 9 British schools, English is no longer the primary language spoken at home by students. 1,755 schools in the UK (out of 15,288 total) reported that a majority of students spoke English as a second language in the annual schools census, accor...

In the UK, the government is struggling to encourage more students to pick up a foreign language. Across the pond in the United States, however, some legislators are taking a different tack: allowing students to learn a computer language instead of a foreign language.  The states of Texas and Oklah...