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Learning foreign language has beecome so popular. To learn a foreign language needs at least five to ten hours per week. These hours could be added to the subject list at school week and teachers economically recruited from the third world. There's a fact that there're few British students learn languages adequately. As a result, if the desire for language learning is high enough, then the price of realistic changes will be paid.
Research into the reasons for success or failure in students has shown that those students who really want to learn, and who take responsibility for their own failure, frequently succeed in the end. Research like this merely confirms what most people instinctively know but often devilishly deny that if you want something badly enough, and you are willing to make the needed sacrifices and endure the inevitable pain, then you are likely to succeed.
The main reason students fail because they do not want to succeed. Students do not want to succeed with sufficient strength that they will pay the price needed for success.
The other main reason why students fail to learn languages in Britain is the unrealistic expectations of success in the short time available. It is quite obvious that British children largely fail to learn a foreign language because the education system does not permit or want the students to learn. If the education planners really wanted children to learn a language then they would allocate the needed time.
It is a widely known estimate that to go from zero to minimal fluency, defined as B2 level in the Common European Framework of Reference, requires about 1200 hours of instruction. At level B2 students can write letters and reports, can understand most books, magazines, news and documentary programs, and can converse pleasantly with reasonable accuracy on any subject they want. The can also consider studying another subject through the medium of that foreign language.
The current situation in Britain is that at best most students get 2-3 hours a week for five years, then nothing. A maximum of 600 hours of tuition over five years. It is quite obvious that the hours allocation needs to be doubled. At least one hour per day of a Modern Language, for at least five years. Can this be done? Easily.
British schools are famous world wide for their short hours of study. Twenty periods of 70 minutes is the norm, and this includes sport and other activities i.e less than 24 hours per week, plus a maximum of ten hours homework. English schools rarely start before 9a.m. and rarely go on after 4p.m. except for clubs and detention.
French schools commonly teach 30-35 hours per week plus homework. French schools routinely start at 8a.m. and go on to 6p.m. In Africa, I know of primary schools that have given extra lessons starting at 6.30a.m, and the official school day finishes at 5.30p.m. and some children then go on to extra private tuition until 7p.m.
I am not advocating such long hours. On the contrary, I have repeatedly said that a good teacher does not need a lot of hours, and in most subjects, two intensive hours are better than three boring hours.
But with languages 'intensive time' is not always efficient. A good teacher is one who actually takes the time to practice and drill. It is completely different to science teaching where a good teacher has mastered the art of conveying a massive amount of content combined with explaining inherently difficult ideas in the shortest time possible. Languages need extended exposure and training over a long period of time.
So what will it realistically take to teach French in British secondary schools? Quite clearly, an extra hour needs to be added to the school day. I already hear people shouting 'you can't do that'. Why not? Will children have to come to school or go home in the dark? In large parts of Britain in the winter they already do that. I can remember in 1970 leaving home in the dark at 7.45am and coming home in the dark and I thought nothing of it. School transport can easily be rescheduled.
The lack of French teachers? Why not recruit some of the highly qualified Africans and North Africans who speak perfect and clear French? Financing them would be easy: this could be part of the overseas aid budget, and part of the trade promotion budget since on return to their own country they are highly likely to be favourable to Britain. To discourage them from overstaying their visa then a large part of their wages could paid in their own country on their return.
If Britain is ever to take languages seriously, then students will need 5-10 hours per week -- just for one foreign language. Can't be done? Of course it can. If the desire for foreign languages is strong enough then students could easily spend ten hours a week learning another language.
The British educators have reaped the harvest they have sown. They are clearly not really motivated enough to plan for effective foreign language learning in British schools. The price is obvious, and the path to success reasonably clear. If Britain wants teenagers to learn languages then they will provide 5-10 hours a week of tuition for five years. The obstacles to implementing this are mere trivial excuses of a type beloved of children to excuse bad behaviour. Much better to honestly admit - languages are possible but for some inexplicable reason, the price is too high.
Success is possible, but it comes with a price. If you want it badly enough, you will pay the price. People in Britain do not want to pay the price. Therefore clearly the British do not really want to learn languages.
