Primary curriculum change: directions of travel in 10 countries (Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) International Unit, March, 2008)

The report charts recent policy change and includes explicit reference to languages and citizenship:

'In a few of the countries, recent changes have sought to give foreign languages a higher status at primary level.  Citizenship education, now well-established in many countries, was recently introduced or is being made more prominent in the curriculum in other countries' (p. 3).