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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.

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.
The first bar chart provides data regarding the percentage of
students
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 between 14 and 16 years old who studied a foreign
language
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 in an
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 country in 1984 and 2007, broken down by gender,
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 the second one gives information about the proportion of
top
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the top
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 3 languages studied by them.
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,
it is clear that
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 more
girls
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 learned
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language
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 other than English. It is
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 evident that French was the most popular among
students
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 throughout these years. Focusing first on the percentages of boys and
girls
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, in 1984, just under 50% of
girls
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 studied a foreign
language
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,
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 the proportion of boys was significantly lower, fewer than a third. Regarding 2007, the figures dropped for both sexes, with two-fifths and approximately a quarter of them, respectively. Turning to the proportions of languages, in 1984, half of the
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 studied French.
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, in 2007,
this
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 figure dropped drastically, to only 25% of
students
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 who preferred
this
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language
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. Between 20% and roughly 14% of boys and
girls
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 chose German during these years. Notably, Spanish, being the least popular at the beginning, with
aroung
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around
 5% of
students
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 picked it, doubled in 2007.

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Vocabulary: Replace the words students, language, girls with synonyms.
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Vocabulary: The word "figures" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "figures" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "percentage" was used 2 times.
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Vocabulary: The word "proportion" was used 3 times.
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Vocabulary: Use several vocabularies to present the data in the second paragraph.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • proportion
  • foreign language
  • bilingualism
  • cultural exchange
  • trends
  • globalization
  • motivation
  • curriculum
  • educational implications
  • cognitive development
  • historical ties
  • economic partnerships
  • cultural exposure
  • media
  • digital communication
  • xenophobia
  • international understanding
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