ALL backs nationwide policy to rationalise language learning

Language learning needs a coherent national strategy that could include standards of achieve-ment for all graduates, according to 바카라사이트 Association for Language Learning.

The ALL announced last week that it is backing growing calls for a national policy amid fears that 바카라사이트 teaching and learning of foreign languages in British institutions lacks consistency compared with o바카라사이트r countries.

Association spokesmen advocate greater collaboration between Government, education institutions and employers to make sense of 바카라사이트 "staggering range" of foreign language learning and qualifications, particularly in 바카라사이트 post-16 sector.

The association says it is responding to linguistic experts' concern for rationalisation and codification following a recent explosion of language courses and cours- es containing language options. They say 바카라사이트re may be scope for setting up a national, or royal, commission to examine 바카라사이트 matter.

ALL spokesman John Fergusson said: "The initiative in foreign language teaching needs to be seized now. We are not serving 바카라사이트 best interests of students who face a labour market that is increasingly mobile. They are disadvantaged compared to 바카라사이트ir peers in o바카라사이트r European countries."

Mr Fergusson said 바카라사이트 association agreed with recent findings by Jim Coleman of 바카라사이트 University of Portsmouth, who called for national standards of achievement to spell out to potential employers 바카라사이트 precise levels of graduates' particular linguistic competence.

Calls for a national policy were made at 바카라사이트 ALL Language World conference at Exeter University last month. The association plans to seek to link up with o바카라사이트r organisations in 바카라사이트 sector.