The two bar charts show a proportion of 12-16-year-old students studying a modern foreign language in an English-Speaking country and the top three popular foreign languages in 1984 and 2007.
Overall, the percentage of students studying a modern foreign language shared a similar pattern downward to a different extent. The top three languages studied were led by France for both periods.
To begin with, the percentage of 14 to 16-year-old students for modern foreign language, the chart was dominated by girls at approximately 65% in 1984 and 52% in 2007, whereas the boys experienced a lesser percentage fall of students from roughly 48% in 1985 to 40%.
As for the top three languages studied by 14 to 16-year-old boys and girls students. France was the top ranked in both 1984 and 2007 at 65% and 50%. Spanish was the lowest ranked at 5% in 1984 and outnumbered Germany in 2007 for 5% more. Germany remained the same in both periods at 15%.
