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Languages offered at Junior Cycle (Total Sample)
Q8: Which of these languages are being taught as part of the Junior Cycle programme in your school?
100%
90%
French
96%
80%
86%
German
70%
60%
Spanish
50%
56%
50%
40%
30%
44%
Italian
36%
20%
10%
3%
0%
0%
English-medium schools n=353
Irish-medium schools n=36
• Most English-medium schools offer French at JC and LCE.
• Irish-medium schools are more likely to offer Spanish as well as or instead of French.
Figure 5: Languages at Junior Cycle, English-medium and Irish-medium schools
Overall, across all schools and across both the Junior and Senior Cycle, French is extremely well covered. 96% of
English-medium schools and 86% of Irish-medium schools offer French plus one other language, however 25% of
all schools offer only French. This is reflected in the total number of Junior Certificate sits In Modern Foreign
Languages for 2017: French: 31,581; German: 12,030; Spanish: 10,231; and Italian: 433.
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Audit of Foreign Languages Provision in Post-Primary Schools 2017
Post-Primary Languages Initiative February 2017 Draft Report