Focus on languages — getting round the barriers

Abstract

Languages are in a class of their own. The development of language is often supposed to mark the beginning of real human existence: organisational man. Everyone grows up speaking one out of the estimated 6,000 in the world — and some people are lucky enough to grow up with two, three or even more. Yet to learn a new language seems to require such a lot of effort, and many school pupils end up with the feeling that they really haven't got an awful lot out of their three or four years of French.

Citation

Bell, A. (1983), "Focus on languages — getting round the barriers", Education + Training, Vol. 25 No. 10, pp. 294-295. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb002112