http://www.npcpp.ie/blog/2010/02/24/isnt-it-time-that-the-department-of-education-changed-its-syllabus-in-relation-to-the-teaching-of-languages-in-our-schools/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:43:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.npcpp.ie/blog/2010/02/24/isnt-it-time-that-the-department-of-education-changed-its-syllabus-in-relation-to-the-teaching-of-languages-in-our-schools/#comment-191 John Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:02:17 +0000 http://www.npcpp.ie/blog/?p=7#comment-191 Time to move on languages.Growth areas and where Ireland has to look for opportunities are the so-called BRIC countries,Brazil,Russia,India and China.We are stuck in the mud with our old way of thinking on languages.Same for all schools,French,German or Spanish.We need to be ahead of the game,already we are playing catch up.We need Portuguese(Brazil),Russian and Chinese .Bring in native teachers of those languages.While the Irish language is 'nice' to have we need to think of our place in a wider world. Time to move on languages.Growth areas and where Ireland has to look for opportunities are the so-called BRIC countries,Brazil,Russia,India and China.We are stuck in the mud with our old way of thinking on languages.Same for all schools,French,German or Spanish.We need to be ahead of the game,already we are playing catch up.We need Portuguese(Brazil),Russian and Chinese .Bring in native teachers of those languages.While the Irish language is ‘nice’ to have we need to think of our place in a wider world.

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