Modern Foreign Language School Trips

Language Trip Benefits

✔Allowing students to learn outside the classroom.

✔ Enabling the students to develop links and connections with people from another country.

✔ Giving students the confidence that they can communicate with locals from another country.

✔ Enabling the students to explore the country that they have been studying in the classroom, and allowing them to understand its culture in a greater depth. For instance, giving the students the opportunity to visit its important landmarks and cultural sites, giving the children a further insight into the country's culture and history.

✔ Learning another language and visiting another country enables the students to widen their perspectives.

✔ Allowing students to converse with local people can also improve their communication skills in general, as they are forced to cope and communicate with others in a more difficult situation.

✔ Gives students a greater opportunity to be able to travel and work abroad in the future.

✔ Obtaining an academic qualification in a language gives a student a greater chance of gaining a place at University or College. Moreover, there are numerous combined University courses that involve languages. Consequently, being able to study a language at University gives students a greater choice when deciding their degree course.

✔ Employers look for employees that can communicate in another language. Being able to speak another language therefore, will give your students the upper-hand when entering the job market.

✔ Learning another language is a valuable life skill that will be advantageous at some point during your student's lifetime, whether they visit there in the future or meet someone from that country.

Languages for Career Development

Modern Foreign Languages (MFL) are becoming increasingly important in the workplace. Employers are seeking workers who can speak and understand another language. As companies are becoming increasingly multinational, and it is becoming increasingly commonplace for British companies to trade abroad, especially as we are a part of the EU and have recently strengthened our trade links with China, being able to communicate with another country is priceless. For your further information, the countries that are currently the top trading partners with the UK are as follows: The top five EU trading partners with the UK in October 2014 were; Germany, the Netherlands, France, Ireland and Belgium. The top five non-EU trading partners with the UK in October 2014 were; the US, Switzerland, China, Norway and Canada. Consequently, being able to comprehend one of those languages could make a vital contribution to a British company. Furthermore, City firms and organisations have explicitly stated that they are seeking graduates that speak or write Spanish, Chinese, Arabic or Russian.

10 Reasons to take a school langauge trip

• 1. To allow the students to immerse themselves within another country, culture, and language
• 2. Giving the students the valuable opportunity of conversing with local people
• 3. Enabling the children to see first-hand how locals speak in everyday situations, during their day-to-day life
• 4. Giving the students the chance to witness how the local people work and live
• 5. To create lasting memories with their classmates in another country, whilst learning
• 6. To inspire the students to improve their language skills, whilst on their language learning school trip, and when they return back to school
• 7. To encourage the students to progress that language further in their academic studies
• 8. To give students the confidence to also pursue learning another foreign language
• 9. It gives less confident and more unengaged students the opportunity to develop their language skills in a completely different social environment
• 10. Language learning school trips enhance many valuable skills such as communication skills, adaptability, problem-solving skills, creativity, and social skills