Writing Feedback / IELTS TASK 2, "Whether learning a foreign language should be a compulsory subject at school or not?" [4]

foreign language as one of the major subjects

In recent years, learning a foreign language has been a compulsory subject at schools in Vietnam, Singapore and many other countries due to a pyramid of benefits students receive from it. Noticing that, more and more schools are planning to consider a foreign language as one of the major subjects students are required to study.

The first benefit is for students in countries which English is not the official language. Any student who has the chance to study this international language from early on can easily go to the UK for sight-seeing, studying or even working and researching. Nowadays, English and Chinese are the two dominant languages in the world with over one billion speakers each. Therefore, people who are fluent in English or Chinese will take advantage of the others. They can communicate with their friends from all over the world in a confident way to broaden their knowledge. They will learn more about the diversity of culture, history, food and so on. Most of reliable information now is written in English and French books, magazines..., especially medicine books.

In addition, people good at two or more languages get twice as much salary as ones who know only one language. Having an international language certificate, people have more opportunities to be employed by huge companies such as Google, Samsung, Apple... People also receive respect at work by foreign colleagues with their advanced skills in language. As a result, their co-operation is much easier.

For all these reasons, a foreign language should be a specialised subject at all schools.