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<p>The government supports the efforts of the Japan Foundation to help schools teaching
Japanese. Since September 2014, maintained primary schools in England must teach a
modern or ancient foreign language to pupils at key stage 2 (ages 7 to 11). Schools
can choose which language or languages to teach and should enable pupils to make substantial
progress in one language by the end of primary school.</p><p>The government took action
in 2010 to halt the decline in the number of school children taking language GCSEs
by including it within the English Baccalaureate. This has had a positive effect on
the take up of languages in schools. The proportion of the cohort in state funded
schools entered for a modern foreign language has risen from 40 per cent in 2010 to
49 per cent in 2015. The government’s goal is that, in time, at least 90 per cent
of pupils enter GCSEs in the EBacc subjects of English, maths, science, humanities
and languages.</p>
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