This report presents the findings of a survey carried out in 1970 on nearly 200 degree students in England and Wales studying German as their main subject. The objectives of the survey were to: (1) determine the ranges of language proficiency attained by British graduates in German at various universities and other colleges; (2) interpret these proficiency levels in absolute terms which could be readily understood; (3) study the inter-relationships between certain aspects of foreign language attainment and other factors; and (4) discover those factors associated with the different levels of attainment. Other factors to be measured were: (1) language learning aptitude, (2) intelligence, (3) home and school background, (4) college curriculum, and (5) student's career and study interests. Some of the conclusions were: (1) the overall level of foreign language attainment within the educational system is not high; (2) measured intelligence has a closer association with the passive than with the active language skills; (3) there is a considerable disparity between the aims of degree courses and the students' aims; (4) time spent abroad is the most powerful determiner of high level language attainment; (5) integrative motivation is a necessary condition for high level language attainment; (6) instrumental motivation operates against high level language attainment; (7) language teaching in Great Britain fails to achieve the declared official aims. (CFM)