Even as proficiency in foreign languages continues to be ever more critical to strengthening external ties that are pivotal to the country’s economic development, there appears to be evidence of a diminished appetite for enhancing such proficiency in local educational institutions, President of the privately-run Language Institute Cicely Bernard has said.
According to Bernard, whilst it continues to be patently obvious that the country’s bilateral and multilateral economic and development fortunes are intricately bound up with enhanced proficiency in foreign languages, “We witness with dismay the demise of foreign language programmes in some of our longstanding educational institutions and depleting numbers of students opting for foreign languages in our schools.
