language teaching doubles in English primary schools

Times Online - Primary Schools Double Language Teaching

This increase was entirely expected given the government's aim to have all primary schoool chiildren studying a second language by 2010:

Education Guardian - All primary schools to teach foreign languages by 2010

But it's still good news and, of course, teachers in secondary school and higher education will be waiting to see what effect this has as these young linguists move through the system.