PPLI Annual Report 2020 - Flipbook - Page 83
Impact
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New localised format of #ThinkLanguages was a great success
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Greater impact and reach in challenging, uncertain circumstances and ever-changing levels of restrictions
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Extra two thousand TY students involved, compared with 2019
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Broadened awareness-raising far beyond TY students, with a much wider circle of students, teachers,
principals, parents and local communities involved
#ThinkLanguages has now become a platform for communicating the Languages
Connect message to all audiences, promoting the many personal, cultural, social,
personal and career benets of foreign language skills.
Impact on Students
Largest student event
held in Ireland in 2020 (even if it happened in 70 places at once)
5,000 students
involved with #ThinkLanguages in 2020
66% increase
on 2019 numbers
567% growth
in #ThinkLanguages attendance numbers since inaugural event in 2018
70% of students who took part discovered
that other students had language skills they didn’t know about!
86% of students said that the event changed
their opinion about the value of foreign language skills
98% said they would recommend it to next year’s TY students
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