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Running head: ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE

ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE

English as a Global Language

The English language has become the one language that has dominated the world. There are hundreds of languages in the world, and English has a created a common thread among most cultures, and the western world. When English is introduced in a foreign society, it eats its way through the community until they adopt new and civilized ways of living. However, this can be a problem to the people in small countries that have their own special economies. English can change how this system works through adopting ways of America, and other industrialized countries that speak English. This is why it is a global issue, because English is spreading through the world at a rapid rate. This is changing the attitudes, and the systems of cultures throughout the world. Some alternatives to this global issue are limiting the use of the English language globally, and only using it for educational, or business purposes. If English is allowed to invade other cultures, it can destroy the very fabric of the cultures existence. This essay will focus on English as a global issue, and the ways and alternatives that can be used to lessen its impact.

English commands the world like no any other language. A few linguists are currently saying it might never be deposed as the leader of languages around the world. (Mydans, pg 2). Others see traps, yet the variables they refer to just underscore the grasp English has on the world: disturbances like atomic war or environmental change or the inevitable flawlessness of a translation machine that would make a typical language pointless. Some demand that semantic development will keep on taking its course finished the hundreds of years and that English could in the long amazing a typical dialect as Latin did, or Phoenician or Sanskrit or Sogdian before it.

Limiting the use of English globally can keep it from reaching every corner of the globe and ruining the cultures that it comes in contact with. So, countries must be able to agree to limit the use of English in their own country and reduce the effects that English can have on their culture. For example, if they limit the English language, the people in their culture can have the opportunity to learn their own traditions, and set globalization aside. Another alternative is to limit the English language to education and business. Limiting English to these two realms would keep it out of cultures, and would allow the language to help students and workers become multilingual and understand the world in a way that they may have not before. Below is a table that shows how many countries use English.

English Language and Globalization

Number of Countries

Countries English is Spoken in

150

Countries that do not want to use English

20

Use of English in Schools

140

Use of English in Business

150

With the transitioning of English as a worldwide dialect, with numerous new assortments flourishing in various parts of the world, and with English being utilized increasingly as an apparatus of correspondence among individuals who communicate in English as a moment or outside dialect, we should take a gander at the issue of "universal understandability" not from the perspective of speakers of traditional assortments of English, yet from a really global point of view. (Hung, pg 61). For motivations behind educating, the most down to earth approach is to acknowledge the nearby assortment of English as a real premise to expand on, and to instruct our students sounds or highlights not found in it just where they are genuinely imperative for worldwide comprehensibility as demonstrated by the practical esteem and recurrence of the sound or highlight being referred to, adjusted against the trouble and propriety of such a sound or highlight for global students.

In conclusion, English as a global language can cause whole cultures to fall apart. This is a truth, and a problem that can be reversed. Countries have to be willing to change and limit the use of English in their daily practices. English really only should be confined to business, because English is a language of business. This is why it is a global issue, because English is spreading through the world at a rapid rate. And this is changing the attitudes, and the systems of cultures throughout the world. Some alternatives to this global issue are limiting the use of the English language globally, and only using it for educational, or business purposes. English is a good language, but it does not need to be the dominant language on Earth.

References

Mydans, S. “Across cultures, English is the word” 2007. New York Times. Web. April 29, 2018

Tony T. N. Hung. 2014. English as a Global Language and the Issue of International

Intelligibility. Asian Contexts, pages 59-72.