Hello friends. Let's imagine a world where everyone in the world speaks a common language and we understand each other very well. It's very exciting.

After you're done practicing, click Save & Exit 

    INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL ENGLISHES

Whereas the English language was spoken in the mid-sixteenth century only by a small group of mother tongue speakers born and bred within the shares of all the British Isles, it is now spoken in almost every country of the world.

L2 speakers are well above the total number of L1 speakers and increasing. 

Approximately one in three of the world's population is now capable of communicating to a useful level in English.

      WHO SPEAKS ENGLISH TODAY ?

Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States are countries in which English is said to be spoken and used as a native language

         CLASSIFICATION OF ENGLISH

Native Language (ENL)

It is sometimes called as the language of those born and raised in one country where English is historically the first language to be spoken.

Second Language (ESL)

English as a Second Language refers to the language spoken in a large number of territories such as India, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Singapore, which were once colonized by the English.

ESL is spoken in countries where English is an important and usually official language, but not the main language of the country. These countries are typically ex-colonies of the United Kingdom or the United States. Nigeria, India, Malaysia, and the Philippines are examples of countries in which English is said to be spoken and used as a second language

Foreing Language (EFL)

It is the English of those whose countries were never colonized by the British, and for whom English serves little or no purpose within their own borders.

EFL occurs in countries where English is not actually used or spoken very much in the normal course of daily life. In these countries, English is typically learned at school, but students have little opportunity to use English outside the classroom, and therefore little motivation to learn English. China, Indonesia, Japan and many countries in the Middle East are countries in which English is said to operate as an EFL.

Lingua Franca (ELF)

Speakers of English as a Lingua Franca, who use English for intercultural communication, are now arguably the world’s largest English-using group.

A second area in which English is playing an increasing role within China is as a lingua franca. China’s increase in international trade and contact means that English is becoming the lingua franca of business and trade in China itself. 

 First, the populations of the overseas NS [native speaker] English-speaking settlements greatly increased in size and became states with governments and with a growing sense of separate identity, which soon 

extended to the flavor of the English they used.

Why English is global language?

Second, in the United States 

first of all, but later in Australia and elsewhere, the colonies began to take their 

independence from Britain, which greatly reinforced the degree of linguistic 

difference . 

And third, as the possessions stabilized and prospered, so quite large 

numbers of people, being non-native speakers of English, had to learn to use the 

language in order to survive, or to find employment with the governing class.

WHAT IS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE?

It is a language that is geographically widespread and makes it possible for members of different language communities to communicate.

A language is called a “global language” when it achieves the official position and education preference in every nation, that language will finally come to be used by more people than any other language. The essential reason to make a language global or international is the power of its people.

       WHAT MAKES A GLOBAL LANGUAGE?

It became a particularly critical factor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with economic developments beginning to operate on a global scale, supported by new communication technologies and fostering the emergence of massive multinational organizations.

The growth of competitive industry and business brought an explosion of international marketing and advertising.

Any language at the center of such an explosion of international activity would suddenly have found itself with a global status.

WHY DO WE NEED A GLOBAL LANGUAGE?

The geographical extent to which a lingua franca can be used is entirely governed by political factors.

The need for a global language is particularly appreciated by the international academic and business communities, and it is here that the adoption of a single lingua franca is most in evidence, both in lecture rooms and board rooms as well as in thousands of individual contacts being made daily all over the globe. 

People have become more mobile, both physically and electronically.

WHAT ARE THE DANGEROUS OF GLOBAL LANGUAGE?

Perhaps those with such a language at their disposal will be more able to think and work quickly in it and manipulate it to their advantage.

The global language will make people lazy about learning other languages or reduce their opportunities to do so.

LINGUISTIC POWER:

People who do not have English as a mother tongue will take longer to assimilate reports in English compared with their mother tongue colleagues, and will as a consequence have less time to carry out their creative work.

LINGUISTIC COMPLACENY:

Widespread lack of motivation to learn other languages, fuelled partly by lack of money and opportunity, but also by lack of interest and this might well be fostered by the increasing presence of English as a global language.

LINGUISTIC DEATH:

No one knows how many languages have died since humans became able to speak, but it must be thousands. In many  of these cases, the death has been caused by an ethnic group coming to be assimilated. This situation continues today.

This is indeed an intellectual and social tragedy. When a language dies, so much is lost.

   COULD ANYTHING STOP A GLOBAL LANGUAGE?

There is a strong chance that English will continue to be the lingua franca for the foreseeable future, but it is also wise for people to learn other languages...

The technology to build a "Machine Translation" would take a generation or two to realize.

YES...

Some firms are offering a basic translation service between certain language pairs on the internet.