Plurilinguisme et mondialisation
English makes adolescents less motivated to learn a new language
Source: EurekAlert, Public release date: 2-Apr-2012 Swedish adolescents' desire to learn a foreign language besides English, which they start learning relatively early, has been declining for a long time. A new doctoral thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, shows that one factor behind this trend may be that English is used as a resource when students learn French,...