Nigussie Negash Yadete

The view of Nigussie Negash Yadete of being a hyperglobalizer optimist takes a very personal view at the view. Yadete discuses in her essay how she grew and began to understand why English deserved such praise as the global language. Throughout the essay she described how she was a learning corner and does all the work in the world to learn more and more. He grew up in Ethiopia, a country in Africa who’s two main languages are Oromo and Amharic but English is the most popular foreign language. Yadete learned English in grade school and, “learning of the language depended solely on what the teacher translated, made us say or do in the classroom; it was an absolute teacher dependent learning” (55). He then grew and the main language in school
Erling take very different views on why English should not be this powerful of a language. Rapatahana takes a very critical look at why English should not be viewed under this light. In his essay, Rapatahana discussed how when teaching in China he dealt with people who would never have to use English in their day-to-day lives but, they were forced to learn English anyway. Rapatahana describes these students of his to have had a “grim experience for them all as they attempted to pronounce the twisted consonant curlicues of the English language” (67). Rapatahana, a native English speaker, also described how he was offered so many better accommodations compared to his non-native fellow teachers. He thought that by being offered this and by forcing people to learn the language that English should not have that much power in the
Erling also takes a similar view and discusses how English should not have the power that it has. Erling believes that English doesn’t deserve this power because countries try to Americanize the teaching of English by parading around American looking individuals in their classrooms. One thing that Erling states in her essay is how English teachers were treated poorly; “Many teachers in a similar situation experienced exploitation, and I, too, was unjustly treated at times” (99). Erling was thrown into a situation where she thought she had the power to raise the global impact of English but, she had rarely any power and was just a face of a program. The way that most other countries see English as a language gives it the power that these people believe that it has. If countries viewed English as a language that was individualized per each country that it had influence on this view that English is a way to have American lifestyle choices, it would be more accepted by other