The charts depict the data regarding 14-16 year-old pupils learning a foreign language in an English-speaking country and the top three prevalent foreign languages.
Overall, the charts highlight a downward trend in both examined aspects. Notably, the statistics for girls studying a foreign language were higher than those of boys during the period. Additionally, French always recorded the highest percentage in the top three popular languages.
To commence with the proportion of students learning a foreign language, it is explicit that girls ranked first at nearly 50%, followed by boys at 30% in 1984. After years, these figures decreased to 40% in terms of the former and about 25% in the latter, in 2007.
Moving to the top three languages studied by pupils, French obviously placed first at 50% in 1984, followed by German and Spanish at about 20% and 4% respectively. Moreover, these statistics plunged in 2007, at 26% for French, about 15% for German, and 10% for the other.