Band 5+: The graph below shows the percentage of New Zealand primary school students learning a second language by language learned for the years 2006 to 2014.

The data illustrates the proportion of students studying in primary schools of New Zealand and learning an additional language between 2006 and 2014.

Overall, it’s clear that all figures experienced not significant changes except for Japanese and Chinese. In 2006, the French language was the most chosen by New Zeeland students, meanwhile Chinese demonstrated the opposite.

Initially, French and Japanese were a tie for the most common second language to learn, accounting for just under than 30%, respectively. After reaching the indexes, french fluctuated before finally hitting 30%; while Japanese demonstrated a significant decline comprising less than 20%.

Spanish surpassed the japanese rate in 2009, it continued to go up and hit it’s peak in 2011 st 26%, and gradually declined until 2014 with 14%.

Showing the same pattern, German and chinese were at the bottom of the top accounting for 14% and 4%. There was a rise of 10% in chinese language, while german declined to 7%. Other languages were not so popular with students making up 7% in 2006. After some fluctuations it rose by 1%.