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Advantage And Disadvantage Of English

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With the rapidly development of English, English becomes a lingua franca in the world. English language is spoken by over1.5billion people around the world (“Mufwene, S.”, 2010). Non-native speakers are far outnumber of native-English speakers which means that many people who come from different backgrounds and different native language are using English as a common language for communication(“Mufwene, S.”, 2010). In other words, English have an important position today; it affects more and more people use it as a common channel for communication or in the aspect of sharing academic information. However, although English has many advantages, it is threatening to the position of other languages in the world, for example, some languages are facing …show more content…

Before becoming an expert or a professional in the areas, people must learn lots of knowledge. Then we can say in this way, if the expertise is used in English, of course we need to learn in English first; it is another reason of the trend. All around the world, some schools choose English immersion in order to help students connect to the whole world. The first reason is that there are many different kinds of knowledge present in the world. It’s hard to translate all of them and without making confuse between information, so that students may receive some wrong information. Besides, many non-English speaking countries implement English education, such as China. Children start to learn English when they are in kindergarten in China. (“Clarissa, W., Enjoli, F.” 2010). People not only learning English in their countries, they are also studying abroad. There are over 750,000 foreign students staying in US for studying abroad, (“Pike, C.”, 2013) and over 430,000 choose UK (“Pike, C.”, 2013). English like a chain to link professional opportunity and …show more content…

English become that language they need. This trend also affects people become a global citizen. Many basic words, such as "OK, "Hello", "Yes" and so on, which is some very common words using in answer question or greet somebody who come from different culture and speaking different languages. Therefore, English become a language for them as a kind of lingua franca to adapt the local live and communicate with people. English infiltrate into society more widely and deeply, people are more likely to become a global citizen who can communicate to the global world because of using English. People don’t have to worry about the language barrier. One example is the global tourism. In the past, language barrier maybe affected a person whether he or she was planning to travel other countries. If people want to travel that places, it will means that you have to learn the local language. But now, English can solve this problem, not only useful for those countries which are used English, but also the others such as Japan, Korea. It happens on all countries in the world (“N.P.”, 2013). In addition, wherever you want to travel, study abroad, business trip and so on, airport probably is a way station that bring you to the place where you want to go. Then, you can find the most language used in the airport is English. Consequently, English is the most commonly used

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