Consultation outcome

AS and A level subject content for modern foreign languages with smaller cohorts

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
This consultation has concluded

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Detail of outcome

Summary of the responses we received, along with the government’s response outlining the next steps.

Find out more about revised subject content for A levels.


Original consultation

Summary

We'd like views on AS and A level subject content for modern foreign languages with smaller cohorts.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
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Consultation description

We’d like your views on AS and A level subject content covering the following languages: Arabic, Bengali, Gujarati, Greek, modern Hebrew, Japanese, Panjabi, Persian, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish and Urdu.

New qualifications based on this content will be first taught in Autumn 2018.

The consultation focuses on:

  • the requirement to apply 3 skills in combination (listening, reading and writing), responding to spoken and written sources on common subjects

  • the proposed title of the content for this qualification: ‘modern foreign languages AS and A level (alternative content for languages with smaller cohorts)’

  • any disproportionate impact, positive or negative, on specific students, in particular those with ‘relevant protected characteristics’

Updates to this page

Published 1 December 2016
Last updated 3 March 2017 + show all updates
  1. Added government response.

  2. First published.

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