Discuss the positive and negative impacts of having English as global language Over the last decades English has played an important role around the world as common language for economic‚ education‚ scientific and entertainment exchange between nations and in particular between people. The positive aspect is that English language open doors in terms of global communication and business‚ because this language has become a powerful tool in terms of improving productivity and driving growth
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[pic] English as a Global Language – Debating the future of world English with references to Cristal‚ Phillipson and Reid. Introduction The aim of this essay is to explore the positions of Cristal‚ Phillipson and Reid and to consider how to address and how not to address the global language situation. There have been many different opinions expressed by academic linguistics as to weather the spread of one dominant language is an advantage
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http://www.fnf.org.ph/talakayan/liberal_topic.php?id=240 Filipino vs. English as the medium of instruction The English vs. Filipino debate is once again a hot topic. A petition has been filed in the Supreme Court challenging the government?s policy of using English as the medium of instruction in our schools. According to those who filed the petition‚ the push for the use of English in our classrooms will only lead to further deterioration of what?s already been described as a rather inferior
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While English colonial women tended to experience more oppression because of societal expectations of women’s subordination and Native American women experienced a much greater equality of genders‚ both groups of women were integral to the evolution of their respective societies. Both Native American women and colonial women’s sexualities confused and provided points of misunderstanding in the colonial era of America that contributed to a change in the societies. In the English colonies‚ the perceptions
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Nature &Development of the English language: The English language‚ and indeed most European languages‚ traces it original roots back to a Neolithic (late Stone Age) people known as the Indo-Europeans or Proto-Indo-Europeans‚ who lived in Eastern Europe and Central Asia from some time after 5000 BC (different hypotheses suggest various different dates anywhere between the 7th and the 3rd millennium BC) The exact nature of the original Indo-European language was not known as no writings exist from
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The importance of learning English cannot be overstated in an increasingly interconnected and globalized world. For the millions of immigrants that come to the United States from non-English-speaking countries every year‚ learning to communicate in English is important to enter and ultimately succeed in mainstream America. Working knowledge of the English language can create many opportunities in international markets and regions. International Language English is the fourth most widely spoken
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Australian English essay “How is Australian English changing to reflect the evolving identity of Australians in the twenty-first century? Discuss at least two of the subsystems in your response.” The Australian identity is an extremely unique variety of English that is continuously changing to reflect the evolving identity in the twenty-first century. Ever since the development of technology‚ these technological advances have had a large impact on the English language used in both spoken and
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English for Specific Purposes (ESP) is one of the significant features in the field of English Language Teaching; and‚ it is an important branch of the EFL/ESL (English as a Foreign/Second Language) arena. In the backdrop of the expansion of various fields and branches of knowledge‚ it assumes the status of a significant branch in English Language Teaching (ELT). ESP courses gain prominence and the concept of teaching of ESP has been accepted all over the world. Most of the countries are implementing
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Is English a ‘Killer Language’? The Globalisation of a Code Tanja Eckert‚ Andrea Johann‚ Anna Känzig‚ Melanie Küng‚ Bianca Müller‚ Cornelia Schwald‚ Laura Walder Abstract: Does English act as a Killer-Language or not? The fact that English has gained the status of a world language goes back to British colonialism. English was imposed on the indigenous populace in order to strengthen the power of the colonists. As the example of Papua New Guinea shows‚ this can have serious consequences for people’s
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to wear away at the foundations of the English language. The impact of these rogue Englishes can be clearly seen in the language today‚ and some linguists even feel that American English is threatened by these countless variations. I disagree with this view of Standard American English as an “endangered” language‚ as a language somehow at risk of disappearing. Language plays far too large a role in power and perception‚ so much so that Standard American English will never truly face extinction.
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