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Give an outline of the different views on the state of foreign language learning in Britain presented in the texts.

The 3 viewpoints are very different. The authors are argueing, based on their individual experiences. Will Hutton, is the principal of Hertford College and he writes about the negative sides, of only learning English. David Hughes is more concentrated on he's experiences in Asia, where he experienced native asians speaking English to each other. Susan Purcell takes the Brits in defence and tries to explain the source of the bad statistics.

How does Susan Purcell argue for her views in thext 3? Give examples from the text.

Susan Purcell is defending the British people. The headline of her article, “Saying Britons 'don't do' languages is a fallacy”,describes her point of view. She writes that companies in England complain about the workers not being very strong in their language skills. She is convinced, that when they talk about language skills, it is not foreing languages they are complaining about, it is English[1]. When people talk about the neighbours of the Britons are much stronger in their language, it is about how good they are at English. English is the a mandatory language in 13 EU countries. Even in countries where it is not mandatory, kids tend to choose it anyways. [2] She writes that the statistics that are brought up, can't be used for much. She thinks that the School League Tables, have been blamed for the lack of language been tought in the schools. The teachers focus on teaching kids the easy subjects, so they get better grades and move up on the School League Table. She also tells that the government recently announced that they are removing the new primary corriculum, that the past governmant recommended. The removed corriculum, made it mandatory for kids to learn foreign language from year 3.[3] Susan Purcell