By Sheila Mckenzie-
British secondary schools are to be closely scrutinised in the quality of French teaching given to pupils in schools, after an experienced French teacher spotted consistent weaknesses in the basic teaching and coaching given to pupils.
The female teacher who does not want to be named is a professional tutor who has observed serious failings in the quality of French taught in several schools. With important emphasis placed on British students learning at least one foreign language well, the teacher who has been deluged with offers to privately teach French is shocked at the level of basic knowledge of the language lacking in students.
Five schools in which have so far been highlighted to The Eye Of Media.Com where teaching is believed to be lacking, but will not be mentioned whilst wider research continues, and in order for recommendations to be made to those schools to improve the quality of French taught. If the findings show consistent weaknesses in French teaching, wider recommendations for closer inspections are expected to be sent to Ofsted for close attention, with the Department Of Education notified too.
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Only a small sample of just over 20 students had revealed a high level of weakness in basic French, before the French teacher highlighted the issue to this organisation. A wider survey of pupils from various tutor groups highlighted a further 55 pupils who could not speak any basic French despite taking as one of their subjects in school.
The 54 year old experienced French teacher of over 23 years said:
” It is not really a matter of the exact ratio of pupils that can speak French to those who cannot. These children we are talking about are not dyslexic, they don’t attend special needs schools, they are intelligent and capable children. There should not be that many student’s who don’t understand basic French French students in secondary schools between the ages of 11 and 13 don’t seem to know basic French. They can’t even say simple things like Je Veux aller au Marche, meaning I want to go to the market. Too many can’t say I am tired in French, which is Je suis fatigue”.
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When student’s don’t know simple French vocabulary and are expected to take G.C.S.E exams within two or three years, they are too far behind. Student’s need to be trained to learn how to translate a number of sentences off by heart and be tested well in a stimulating way. Let’s remember that foreign student’s make good effort to learn English and many can communicate in it reasonably well, even when their English is not that good”.
English student’s need to be challenged to match these students a bit when it comes to learning languages like French. They must see it as an important learning process for their development and maturity, and not be satisfied in speaking just one language”.
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