Language Trends is an annual survey of primary and secondary schools in England, designed to gather information about the situation for language teaching and learning. Since 2015 there has also been an annual survey in Wales, and since 2019 a biennial survey in Northern Ireland.  The first survey in Scotland will be in 2024. The Language Trends series shows general shifts in data and seeks to provide a springboard for teachers, school leaders, academics, inspectors, policy makers, school pupils and the public to consider aspects of language learning more deeply.

 

Language Trends England reports

A child learning languages
July 2024

Language Trends England 2024

More than 1300 school teachers from across England contributed to the 22nd report about language teaching and learning, finding most secondaries face recruitment challenges.

School children learning arabic language in a classroom
June 2023

Language Trends England 2023

Research series: more than 1300 teachers from primary, secondary and independent schools across England contributed to this year's report about language teaching and learning.

Group of school children in a school in the UK
July 2022

Language Trends England 2022

Research series: this year's Language Trends report surveyed teachers at more than 1600 primary, secondary and independent schools across England about language learning.

Pupils in a classroom
June 2020

Language Trends 2020

Research series: our annual survey of primary and secondary schools in England, finding out about the current state of language teaching and learning.

Children holding up cardboard speech bubbles
July 2019

Language Trends 2019

Research series: our annual survey of primary and secondary schools in England, finding out about the current state of language teaching and learning.

Classroom teacher and student
June 2018

Language Trends 2018

June 2018: The latest report charts the health of language teaching in England.

Language Trends Wales and Northren Ireland reports