The two bar charts below show the proportion of 14 to 16 - year old students studying a foreign language in an English spoken country and the top 3 foreign languages. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.
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These bar graphs illustrate the ratio of 14 to 16-year-old
students
learning a foreign language in an English-spoken
country and the three most commonly used foreign Correct your spelling
English-speaking
languages
. In general, female students
showed more interest in learning new languages
than male students
, both
in 1984 and in 2007. Also
, French is the most popular language amongst others.
To begin
with, both
genders showed a reduced percentage of learning a foreign language in 2007 than in 1984 but the gap is almost the same. Among the three top languages
, French remained the first place in both
1984 and 2007, but the proportion dropped drastically from 50% to 25%, respectively. While
German showed a modest decrease from 20% to 15%, Spanish showed doubled results from 5% to 10% over 23 years.
In conclusion, the graphs show that fewer students
learned foreign languages
in 2007 than in 1984, while
the girls were more enthusiastic than the boys in both
periods. Also
, French was the most popular among the three but Spanish turned out to be more popular than in the past.Submitted by JE
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