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References

Week 1
Organisation mondiale de la francophonie (2018) ‘Qui parle francais dans le monde?’ [Online]. Available at http://observatoire.francophonie.org/ qui-parle-francais-dans-le-monde [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] (Accessed: 22 February 2022).
Week 6
auf.org (2019) Présentation de l’édition 2019 de La langue française dans le monde. Available at: https://www.auf.org/nouvelles/actualites/presentation-de-ledition-2019-de-la-langue-francaise-dans-le-monde (Accessed: 7 July 2022).
BBC News (2019) ‘Why the future of French is African’. Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47790128 (Accessed: 7 July 2022).
France24 (2017) ‘Macron qualifie la colonisation de “crime contre l’humanité” et provoque l'ire à droite et au FN’. Available at: https://www.france24.com/fr/20170215-emmanuel-macron-algerie-colonisation-crime-humanite-fn-lr-le-pen (Accessed: 7 July 2022).
Government of Canada (2019) Statistics on official languages in Canada. Available at: https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/official-languages-bilingualism/publications/statistics.html (Accessed: 7 July 2022).
Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (2018) La langue française dans le monde 2018. Available at: http://observatoire.francophonie.org/2018/synthese.pdf (Accessed: 7 July 2022).
Week 8
The British Academy (2019a) Languages in the UK. Available at: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/61/Languages-UK-2019-academies-statement.pdf (Accessed: 7 July 2022).
The British Academy (2019b) The cognitive benefits of language learning. Available at: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/286/Cognitive-Benefits-Summary.pdf (Accessed: 7 July 2022).
The British Academy (2020) Towards a national languages strategy. Available at: https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/2597/Towards-a-national-languages-strategy-July-2020_R0FHmzB.pdf (Accessed: 7 July 2022).
CBI (2019) Education and learning for the modern world. Available at: https://www.cbi.org.uk/media/3841/12546_tess_2019.pdf (Accessed: 7 July 2022).
The Economist (2014) What is a foreign language worth?. Available at: https://www.economist.com/prospero/2014/03/11/johnson-what-is-a-foreign-language-worth (Accessed: 7 July 2022).