Annual Report 2024 - Flipbook - Page 4
Foreword
As we reflect on another year of progress and innovation in education, it is my pleasure to introduce the Post
Primary Languages Ireland (PPLI) Annual Report in the context of the ongoing role for PPLI in implementing
key actions of Languages Connect – Ireland’s Strategy for Foreign Languages in Education. This strategy aims
to support better learning of foreign languages in the Irish education system and to increase the diversity of
provision for the inherent benefits to individuals, society, and the economy.
In our Programme for Government 2025 we set out to increase the uptake of foreign languages in our schools
and expand the teaching of modern foreign languages in primary schools. PPLI is using the Say Yes to Languages
primary sampler module to prepare the ground for the introduction of Modern Foreign Languages in the
primary curriculum and participation is now at 1,400 schools and more than 88,000 pupils, with a diverse range
of languages being offered to students. The diversity of languages being taught as part of the module is
evidence of the multicultural plurilingual society that we live in, and the module provides a platform to raise
awareness among pupils of the diversity of languages being used by their peers in their schools and community.
I am committed to enhancing the educational landscape for all students and to equipping students with the
skills they require to succeed in a rapidly changing world, and I commend the work that PPLI are doing in this
context. Provision of quality foreign languages education and supports is fundamental to providing students
in Ireland with the opportunities and intercultural skills to access the labour market in other EU countries.
Problem solving, innovation, and critical thinking are all important transversal skills fostered in the process of
language learning.
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