Annual Report 2024 - Flipbook - Page 49
Languages Provision
PPLI Development Oocers
PPLI employs 51 Development Officers to teach the more recently introduced languages such as Lithuanian,
Mandarin Chinese, Polish and Portuguese in schools across Ireland. These Development Officers are qualified
teachers who are deployed to schools on an ex-quota peripatetic basis.
This may be thought of as a bridging programme that enables schools to introduce new language subjects
with minimum risk and resourcing. Where the provision is successful, schools may employ the teacher using
additional allocation, a separate scheme facilitated by PPLI and described below.
The table below details the number of Development Officers employed by PPLI for each language, and the
number of schools each language is taught in.
Language
Development Oocers (Teachers)
Schools (Excluding PPLI Saturday Classes)
Chinese
6
42
Japanese
18
27
Korean (TY Module)
1
8
Lithuanian
1
1
Polish
15
21
Portuguese
4
8
Russian
4
3
Romanian
2
N/A (Saturday Class only)
Total
51
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In-School Provision of Languages
PPLI facilitates diversification of languages provision in schools by offering schools the opportunity to add
additional languages to their curriculum without having to use regular school allocation. Schools are
therefore enabled to trial a new language before committing to longer-term provision. Students are offered
more choice of languages which caters for diverse interests and aptitudes and an imbalance in provision of
languages is addressed. There are few teachers on staff in schools that have capacity to teach the more
recently introduced curricular languages and provision in schools is therefore reliant on this external
provision, at least in the early years while the language is embedded and established.
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