The pie charts below show responses by teachers of foreign languages in Britain to a survey concerning why their students are learning a foreign language. The first chart shows the main reason for learning a foreign language. The second chart shows how many teachers felt that there has been a recent change in the reason.

Task Achievement

Band 7.0

Coherence and Cohesion

Band 6.0

Lexical Resource

Band 6.0

Grammatical Range and Accuracy

Band 6.0

The first pie chart shows different reasons why students learn a second language while the second chart illustrates how they account for recent changes. Data is based on a survey by some British teachers of foreign languages.