English as a Lingua Franca. Who owns English today? Pavlína Bílá Semester: 1 Academic Year: 2013 The role of English language has already achieved not only the position as a native language‚ but it has also gained the status of global lingua franca and its power is growing day by day. With today globalized world‚ modern internet era‚ huge expansion of tourism and international trade in all over the world‚ it has appeared the need for common language which can be used
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English is a universally accepted language. A man who doesn’t know to speak n English is likely to be put alone in the Sahara desert as he is that useless in this period. There are so many advantages for you if you try to speak or communicate in English‚ they are : 1) Rewarding job Our dream is to get a good job which is accepted by the society. To get such a job‚ there are a series of interviews which you should face. Our fluency and skill in English speaking is the main criteria which the
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English as a global language English is spoken in most parts of the world‚ for instance in Great Britain‚ the USA‚ Canada‚ Australia‚ New Zealand and in many more countries. Moreover in African states English serves as main form of communication. English is‚ after the Chinese one‚ the language most people speak and it is the most popular second language and foreign language pupils learn in school. The English language is often named as a “killer language” that wipes out smaller languages
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reasons to learn English and the advantages that come from speaking English when you travel are many‚ varied and valuable. In so many parts of the world‚ English is the ‘international language’ — although it may not be the language that is native to‚ or most commonly spoken in a particular country‚ English is most often the language that travellers share and local people use when communicating with visitors. Here we take a look at six of the greatest advantages of speaking English when you travel:
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graphic communication at a higher level which broadened my experience in technical drawing and introduced me to computer aided drawing which inspired me to research different courses related to this subject and doing so clearly confirmed my desire to study this course. During the summer I attended summer school-organised by “Swedish Group of Technical Institutes” which gave taster sessions on different subjects. During the Architectural/Civil engineering work shop we were split into teams and given
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English grammar has minimal inflection compared with most other Indo-European languages. For example‚ Modern English‚ unlike Modern German or Dutch and the Romance languages‚ lacks grammatical gender and adjectival agreement. Case marking has almost disappeared from the language and mainly survives in pronouns. The patterning of strong (e.g. speak/spoke/spoken) versus weak verbs (e.g. love/loved or kick/kicked) inherited from its Germanic origins has declined in importance in modern English‚ and
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EFFECTIVE STUDY Effective learning depends upon good study skills‚ but “Many students - - both traditional and nontraditional - - entering college have few‚ if any practical study skills.” ( Huber‚ 1994‚ 29) Good study skills do not simply occur; they must first be learned and then applied consistently. Efficient study strategies include a preset time‚ a desirable place‚ and a well-designed plan for study. A Time for Study Many of us think we have more to do than we have time to do
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racie Allen of the comedy team of Burns and Allen was once asked how one should speak French. She replied‚ "Well‚ you speak it the same way you speak English; you just use different words." When trying to assist in instructing English language learners‚ they usually have many concepts and language abilities that they need to master‚ as do the teachers that are trying to teach them. With the incorporation of the concepts and approaches to identify and assess the issues and concerns that we have learned
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Smile Recent years have witnessed an increasing number of people going abroad for study. There are many positive and negative effects of studying abroad on young people. On the one hand‚ studying abroad has lots of positive aspects. In the first place‚ they would be more independent due to they must do everything by themselves‚ such as‚ registration‚ cooking and washing. Additionally‚ they can broaden their horizons. And they go to a completely new place also everything is different. They will
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ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE: ITS HISTORICAL PAST AND ITS FUTURE Zuliati Rohmah Abstract: This paper discusses English as a global language. The description of its history is offered to enable us to detect the underlying motivation of spreading English world-wide. How English plays a role on the death of other languages is presented to make us aware of preserving our own language‚ while making use of English. The future of English is predicted to give us a direction to our activities in relation
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