At CILT, the National Centre
for Languages, we are committed to supporting research. In
particular, we aim to:
- support evidence-based
development of policy and practice in the world of languages
- bring researchers,
practitioners and policy makers into closer contact with each
other
- provide unique facilities
and support for researchers
- encourage teachers to be
involved in action research projects in their own
classrooms.
Use the left-hand menu to
find out more about CILT's work in research, statistics and Language Trends surveys.
New in research and statistics
Language Trends survey 2009 [updated: regional
analyses now available]
The survey was carried out from September to December 2009
by CILT, the National Centre for Languages with support from the
Association for Language
Learning and the Independent Schools’ Modern Language
Association.
It has been carried out annually since
2002 to track developments in language provision and take-up in
secondary schools.
Click here to read about the key
findings, final report, full statistical report, the questionnaire
and the regional analyses.
School exam figures: GCSE and A
level languages [updated]
DCSF released
this year's A level and GCSE exam figures on 15 OCtober 2009. The
provisional figures show that while the total entries of GCSE
language continued to drop in 2009, the overall proportion of
pupils taking GCSE languages out of the total KS4 population
managed to remain the same as in 2008. On the other hand, while the
overall A level figure remained at the same level as in 2008,
languages varied in the trends of exam entries. Click the links
below to access the CILT analysis of school entries in GCSE, A
level and AS including the time series from the 1990s.
GCSE exam entries for
languages, English schools (updated on 13 January
2010)
A level exam entries for
languages, English schools (updated on 13 January
2010)