Band 6+: The two bar charts below show the proportion of 14-to 16-year-old students studying a foreign language in an English speaking country, and the top three foreign languages. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant. You should write at least 150 words.

The charts illustrate the percentage of 14-to 16-year old adolscenes learning a foreign language amid people who communicate in English, and three languages that they comprehend in 1984 and 2007.

Overall, it can be seen that girls dominated boys by the rate of learning a language in both years, and French language had the highest rating in learning by children, maintaining it throughout the period.

In 1984, girls learned languages very intensively and showed the record percentage just under 50%, and boys 30% respectively. By 2007, the level of learning languages in girls sector had significantly decreased for almost 10%, then being 40% in total. Boys experiences a slight dip, falling to approximately 25% in 2007.

French accounted for 50% of them who learned their language in 1984. In contrast, for that period, German had under the half of the total percentage of French, at 20%. The lowest level of learning depicted the Spanish, just under 10% in 1984. French decreased throughout the years to below 40%, and German increased at around 24%. Spanish significantly rose to 10% throughout the period.