UK pupils increasingly held back by limited vocabulary

Survey of teachers reveals growing ‘word gap’ affecting learning and exam performance

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Schoolchildren are struggling to answer exam questions because they have an increasingly limited vocabulary, UK teachers have warned.

Around 80% of the 1,300 teachers surveyed for an Oxford University Press study said that primary and secondary pupils were held back in exams by their language deficiency.

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