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<p>Since September 2014, maintained primary schools in England must teach a modern
foreign or ancient 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><br /><p>To support the
introduction of a compulsory foreign language at key stage 2, the government is funding
nine projects across the country to provide training for primary and secondary teachers.
These projects bring together teaching school alliances, university-led consortia
of schools, and a national organisation, the Association for Language Learning.</p><br
/><p>In addition, the EBacc has had a positive effect on the take up of languages
in schools, with a rise in the proportion of the cohort in state funded schools entered
for a modern foreign language rising from 40% of pupils in 2010 to a provisional figure
of 49% in 2015.</p>
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