The given bar charts depict the percentage of students aged 14 to 16 who studying a language that is not their mother tongue in an English speaking country, and the top three foreign languages.
Overall, the data clearly reveals that more girls were learning a foreign language in both 1984, and 2007.In 1984, and 2007, French dominated in terms of numbers while the lowest was Spanish.
In 1984, almost half of the girls were learning a foreign language while only 30% boys did. In addition, in 2007, only 22% of boys were learning a new language, this was 10% lower than the proportion of girls. Throughout the time, the gaps between genders were around 15% to 20% in the given years.
On the other hand, Spanish and German were always smaller than French at 5% for the former and 20% for the latter. In 2007, French fell significantly to around 24% while German dropped to 20%. In contrast, Spanish rose and reach 10 in the same year, but it still the lowest in all the charts.