Foreign Language Competition For Students
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Fifty five students won prize for their speaking and performance abilities
These talented students are from McIntosh High, Sandy Creek High, Starr’s Mill High and Whitewater High schools. A student is selected by the foreign language teachers for the competition based on their ability to learn by heart and perform in front of their entire class. Students immediately start practice the moment they get selected. Students have to present two poems in front of judges and audience, their pronunciation understanding of text, smoothness of delivery and textural accuracy should be so precise. If students have all these capability then no body can stop them from winning the award.
Read: thecitizen.com
David Laws, the party’s children secretary, said: “We have always been regarded as one of the most incompetent nations in our ability to speak other languages. These figures suggest that our counterparts abroad have seen nothing yet.” John Cridland, the deputy director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, said: “At present too few young people are entering work with language skills.” Alan Smithers, the professor of education at Buckingham University, said children had been “spoiled” by the growth of English. Continuing his views he also said “English being a world language brings many benefits, but we are put at the severe disadvantage of not having an incentive to engage in another language.” The schools minister, Jim Knight, said: “Whilst we were encouraged by the increase in the number of pupils taking Spanish, we have been concerned for some time about the decline in language learning.”
