Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language for the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) is considered optional—and not necessarily even encouraged, shows research published in The Language Learning Journal.
Poorer students in England are more likely to miss out on studying a language for secondary education certificate
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