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The Investigation - Mother Tongue

Alistair Mooney Alistair Mooney | 12:00 UK time, Monday, 1 September 2008

Ken Macdonald asks whether the education of Scottish school children - both native and new to the country - is suffering due to increasing numbers of pupils who can't speak English.

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Radio Scotland's The Investigation takes a look at the rising number of children with little or no English coming into Scotland's schools every year. At last count there were 138 different languages spoken by over 15,000 pupils all needing extra help with their English.

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