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Ulrike Bavendiek; Silke Mentchen; Christian Mossmann; Dagmar Paulus
Ab Initio Language Teaching in British Higher Education, 12/2022Book Chapter
The teaching of modern languages at ab initio level in higher education has become a necessity for universities across the UK, given that the number of students studying for GCSEs and A-levels in Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) at school is in decline. Since 2003, the last year in which the taking of a modern foreign language in Year 10 was compulsory, entries for language GCSEs at schools in England have dropped by 41 per cent (Bawden, 2021; see also Durrell, 2017 for an overview and assessment of this development). A-level entries in French, German and ‘other modern languages’ have also
