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Jan 26, 2019 · The present paper highlights the importance of English as a global language as most of the world's communications is done in English. It also reveals how English is being widely used in...
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In Asia, English is used extensively both at local levels for local needs within countries, and at the global level as a lingua franca, i.e. an instrument of communication across regions, and of course internationally.
- Juliane House
- 2018
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of English worldwide that resulted in English becoming the new lingua franca has many economic, cultural, and social causes, but it is a fact that: “English has been successfully promoted, and has been eagerly adopted in the global linguistic marketplace” (Phillipson, 1992, p. 7).
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Oct 28, 2014 · English as the Global Lingua Franca (EGLF) has become a means of universal communication not only between the native speakers of English and speakers of English as the second language, but also between people with different native languages.
- Vladimir M. Smokotin, Anna S. Alekseyenko, Galina I. Petrova
- 2014
Over the last century, English has been developing into the first truly global lingua franca. A lingua franca is most generally defined as a medium of communication among people who do not share a first language. This means that lingua franca interactions happen, by definition, in multilingual settings: they are bi- or multilin-
ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE with millions of popular intuitions at a level which had simply not existed a decade before. These are the kinds of statement which seem so obvious that most people would give them hardly a second thought. Of course English is a global language,they would say. You hear it on
Only. twenty years ago, learning English was automatically understood to mean emulating a British or American standard model of the language. This situation, known as the teaching of English as a foreign language (EFL), situates the learner as the ‘foreigner’, and measures success through proximity to the norms of the chosen native speaker model.