It's hard to find enough teachers who are qualified to instruct them, and there's little consistency in the programs used to educate them.

NPR: Instruction Of Students Learning English Bleak

"I detect in the latest Gove plan - as implied and reported - is what I'll call the itch to instruct and dictate to teachers and children because it will do them good, that teachers and children themselves can't or shouldn't choose, investigate and discover what is suitable and worthwhile, " he wrote on his blog.

BBC: New curriculum 'to make languages compulsory from seven'