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Godsland, Shelley – Hispania, 2010
In 2005 the BBC reported that in reply to a survey conducted by the European Commission, 66% of English respondents indicated that they spoke no language other than their mother tongue. This proportion was far higher than in any other European Union nation taking part but compares fairly favorably with the United States, where one-fourth of adults…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Monolingualism, Foreign Countries