The impact of early English lessons at Dutch primary schools is negligible because many teachers don’t speak the language well enough, Trouw reports on Wednesday. Research by school testing ...

Primary schools should focus on German reading and math instead of English, the president of the German Teachers' Association has said. His remarks come as German students score lower than peers in ...

Iran has banned the teaching of English in its primary schools, a senior education official has said. Such lessons set the path for a western "cultural invasion", said Mehdi Navid-Adham, head of the ...

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An earlier study had raised doubts about the effectiveness of learning English in the first grade. Now, researchers have observed that it improves language performance over an extended period of time.

The country, a former French colony, uses French in its public schools, with children also learning Arabic. Wolof is the most spoken language however, the first spoken of six national languages, and ...