article_snippet.sent: Teenagers will be encouraged to learn foreign languages by talking about tattoos, music festivals, YouTube and rap music under the latest GCSE shake-up .
article_snippet.sent: Teenagers will be encouraged to learn foreign languages by talking about tattoos, music festivals, YouTube and rap music under the latest GCSE shake-up.
article_snippet.sent: The board said the new French, German and Spanish GCSEs would allow pupils to talk about pupils interests using updated content.
article_snippet.sent: Exam board officials also hope to ‘bring back linguistic skills’ by focusing on grammar as a component of an indispensable language ‘toolkit’.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Current GCSE specifications have focused on preparing coursework which is more about the theme than learning the building blocks of a language.
article_snippet.sent: Our new approach should fundamentally improve both the student’s enjoyment and their linguistic ability.
article_snippet.sent: The course content, which has now been submitted to Ofqual for approval, would be studied by pupils from 2016.
article_snippet.sent: Experts said Other proposed content would take inspiration from methods used to teach English as a foreign language.
article_snippet.sent: We are passionate about getting these three core language GCSEs right to help the UK build a generation of people with the language skills that are so desperately needed.