2. THE ISSUE Most students from Huelva city, don’t have a good command of foreign languages. Despite having studied these languages (mainly English) throughout primary and secondary education, they finish their studies without skills to communicate fluently in a foreign language. THE AIM Our survey’s goal is to know our students’ opinion about how important the learning of other languages is and its outcome in their social and professional life.

3. - Sources of information used: questionnaires. - The target population: junior high school, senior high school or vocational training cycles. Amount of students: 7814. - Number of school: 15. - Sample: 370 students. * Confidence level: 95% * Margin of sampling error: 5% THE METHOD

21. - Trade and Marketing students. - Business Administration students.

22. - Mª del Mar Ordoñez Martínez. - Asunción Velázquez Hernández. - Carmen Álvarez Palomero. - Jesús Beas Arco

23. ROCIO BARTOMEU one of our classmate for her help with information processing using the SPSS, statistics software, to process the data.