‘People can be smarter with two languages’: changing anglophone students' attitudes to language learning through teaching linguistics
Lanvers, Ursula; Hultgren, Kristina; Gayton, Angela · White Rose Research Online
With English as an undisputed global lingua franca, there is long-standing concern in anglophone countries over the lack of interest in language learning. In the UK, significant changes in language education policy, a mentality of insularity and the global spread of English have all contributed to a drop in language learning uptake beyond the compulsory stag…