Overall in Wales 20.3pc achieved grade As at
first language Welsh, but 82.4 did achieve grades A-C.
In 1989 the Welsh
first language candidates scored 39.1pc, 23.
``This means that pupils who have switched from
first language to second language do not develop the appropriate language skills: the educa-tional system is skewed so that they lose the linguistic skills they have previously gained.
It says, "Too many pupils in bilingual secondary schools follow Welsh second language courses and sit GCSE Welsh second language even though they may have undertaken National Curriculum assessment in Key Stage Two and Key Stage Three in Welsh
first language.
That's the most important thing." He said there were "too many" parts of Britain where English is not people's
first language "and that needs to change".
English is the lingua franca of the world with 3 billion second language speakers and nearly 400 million
first language speakers.
CHILDREN who do not speak English as a
first language remain far more likely to fall behind at primary school.
some self-advocates who prefer identity
first language such as "autistic person" (see Resources).
'French as a second language is disrespectful to our pride and culture, it is bad enough that our
first language is another person's language.
A further 269,000 people spoke Urdu as their
first language, followed by the 221,000 that spoke Bengali.
However, some 702,000 people in England and Wales say they Chinese is the seventh most
first LANGUAGE in England and cannot speak the English language well and 162,000 people say they cannot speak it at all, which can often pose educational and social barriers.
the most commonly spoken LANGUAGE, Polish usually taught schools Arabic was a
first language for 159,000 individuals, ahead of the 147,000 people who spoke French as their main language.
At the start of the project, although I had been given a list of the students'
first languages from our EAL/D teacher, I was unaware if the students could speak, read or write these languages fluently, or if they used their
first language outside of school.
GCSE results analysed by the WJEC showed Welsh
first language candidates outperforming English
first language candidates by 5% in English Language and by 19% in Modern Languages.
