A group of schools has been criticised for entering hundreds of English-speaking teenagers into a GCSE exam aimed at pupils who moved here from abroad. Ofsted revealed one of the schools – Harris ...

Olga Gomez-Cash is a member of the Pearson/Edexcel MFL GCSE and AS/A level External Stakeholder Advisory Groups and is a member of the OCR MFL Consultative Forum. She has received funding from the ...

Foreign language learning is at its lowest level in UK secondary schools since the turn of the millennium, with German and French falling the most. BBC analysis shows drops of between 30% and 50% ...

Language learning at schools in Northern Ireland is "slowly recovering from the pandemic", new research suggests. The Language Trends Northern Ireland report from the British Council shows that a ...

There is a class divide in language education in England. Young people from working-class backgrounds in socially deprived areas are far less likely to choose, or have the opportunity, to study ...

Students from less wealthy backgrounds are more likely to attend schools where learning a foreign language to GCSE is considered optional – and not necessarily even encouraged – new research shows.

Here you can find CCEA past papers for GCSE English Language. Use the links below to download question papers and mark schemes (which contain indicative content and explain how marks are awarded). In ...