Advantages Of Standard English Language

The English language began its climb to world dominance with the rise of the British Empire in the 16th century. During this time English began to spread as the worlds lingua franca for business and trade. With the support of the United States, which at the time was one of the most successful nations in history, english was able to overthrow all previous lingua francas. However, english should not be considered as the “gateway to the world”. Although the english language is widely- spoken around the world, making english language the official language of the world will lead to diminishing cultural diversity.

Standard 1: The student will identify and apply conventions of standard English in his or her communications.

English is the language of the modern world. It is undeniable that English has become a global lingua franca and has developed throughout history. With the spread of English, it has evolved into different varieties known as ‘World Englishes’ and in turn emerged a number of attitudes to the issues of deviation from what is considered to be ‘standard’. Throughout the years there has been a great debate over the teaching of English in schools. One particular aspect of this is the argument over whether or to what extent Standard English should be used in the education of children. In this essay I will examine the understanding of Standard English and Non-standard Englishes and relate how Standard English is used in the domain education in Outer

English has become the most widespread and powerful language on Earth. The imperial English Empire spread English across the globe; from America to Asia. English’s position in the world was cemented by US cultural and diplomatic dominance; evident in American movies, fast food, and clothing. English has proven it is not moving anywhere anytime soon, as English only grows in use over time. Thus a debate has arisen: Should English be the official Universal Language? On one hand, English can harm other cultures, international relations, and scientific development; however, English is very flexible and widely used, making it the perfect candidate for a global language.

Standard English was established so that every person of the English origin could speak on one accord of understanding and comprehensiveness. However, fast forwarding to the modern day world, English varies in many cases. Standard English, Broken English, Black English (known as slang), etc... Speaking in any other English besides Standard English you are known to be grammatically and educationally incorrect. Standard English is taught in the classroom but does not prepare for real life world experiences. Many variations of English language are spoken but many are also judged by in most cases a person who speaks Standard English.

English is a complex language because it is the mixture of Latin and some other languages. Standard English is what grammarians adopted a series of rules to make English correctly used. In Bill Bryson’s essay “Good English and Bad”, he used historical evidence to show readers how English rules are defined and changed by grammarians. While in the article “Why Good English is Good for You”, John Simon stresses how English users should use this language in a more proper way. Both of Bill Bryson and John Simon suggest people should follow the English rules, but they ignore English are used differently depends on who uses it, how people use it in distinct ways and when it is suitable for people to follow these English rules.

First and foremost, the biggest factor is that first impressions matter even though some may argue that they don’t. The knowledge of Standard English allows people to communicate efficiently and makes people think very highly of the person at hand, in most cases throughout life people will not absolutely have to use proper Standard English but, our society should learn how to be able to switch on and switch off when they should and should not use Standard English. Non-Standard

Just the English language itself is a feat of migration and blending of ideas. It has a Germanic sentence structure, with its very strict placement of verbs, nouns, and the actual subject of the sentence. Yet at the same time, it is heavily influenced by the neighboring Romance languages, the lexicon being 60% derived from Latin in some form or fashion. How this came about is too still embedded in the English language; when one wants to sound fancy

The three levels of standardness in English are formal standard English, informal standard/mainstream English, and vernacular English (Wolfram & Schilling, 2016). Based in written language, formal standard English is greatly enforced in formal institutions such as schools and is codified in English grammar texts. It is resistant to change and only used in formal written or spoken language (Wolfram & Schilling, 2016).

Language is not consistent, it is changing by its nature, either because of innovation, technology, war or someone’s mistakes. English has developed over more than 1500 years since Anglo-Saxon invasion in AD 450 as they brought a set of Anglo-Frisian (Anglo-German) dialect, which became known as Old English. This time was the beginning of the development of English language.

Talking about “dialects”, a term often mentioned along is “standard language”. When being brought into comparison with “dialect”, “standard language” usually serves as a legitimate variant with the highest level of excellence (Bex & Watts, 1999). Though positive in nature, standardization - the procedure of standardizing a language – often raises heated controversy because of its consequences on not only linguistics field but also the society. In the second part of the essay, I will focus on the disadvantages of language standardization.

Today the english language is one of the most well known, and one of the most oftenly used languages in the world we live in. Through time the english language has greatly evolved on its journey across the world. Since the beginning of the english language’s history it has had additions to the alphabet, and also some parts of it has been taken away. Another major change would be the dialect of the language has changed in some ways. Although you can still can somewhat get a hint of what is being said in old english, it still a big jump to the way we pronounce it around the world today.

English has been used in many different ways since we ever started speaking it. Now as we move into the future, English has and still will be used as an international language. Why is it considered so? Also how did this come about? There are changes ongoing that affect English as a language, such as employment opportunities and why it is important for any potential employer wishing to employ someone. It is also used by professionals who are at work each day, on travel, or work-related matters. English is spoken in many different countries and many people there understand English as it is required for business, travel etc. English is also a source of knowledge as it is needed to understand what people are saying, reading books, writing

Why do MFL teachers need to use TL in their lesson? First of all, teachers are always assimilated to role models for their pupils; for a French teacher who is trying to make his students talk in French, it would be coherent to model those expectations. In that way, the logical question from a reluctant student asking - “why are WE expected to speak French and you are not?!”- can be avoided. Also, many would say that it is just common sense to say that the best progress will be made if the teacher uses as much TL as possible. So, can we suggest that the more pupils hear a language the more they can grasp? Indeed, when teachers use the TL as the principal mean of communication it allows pupils to gain a maximum opportunity to use it for themselves as well. (Little, 1995) Also, when learners hear large amounts of comprehensible input and they are engaged in meaning-making, they understand and retain what they hear and they use it to form their own messages. (Long, 1981) (Swain, 1995) In addition to that point, ACTFL states that “learners need as much exposure as possible to the target language for acquisition to occur” (ACTFL, 2017). If this statement is accepted to be true, then, the MFL teacher has no other choice but to use TL as much as he can, especially when it is established that the classroom is the only opportunity for the French student to hear and speak in the target language. Crichton (2009) suggests that it is still possible if the target language is seen as the normal means of communication by both the teacher and the students. In conclusion, those multiple opinions highlight the importance of a good quantity of TL within the classroom.

     “In the world were over seven thousand languages have exisisted, one language had become dominate. This dominant language is English.” “In the majority of countries throughout the world speak English as their second or first language, no longer just America or England.” English has taken many forms, American English, the Queen’s English, Australian, Canadian English, and several others. Even American English has taken several types of English, Jersey English, East Coast English, West Coast English, Southern English, slang English, and Ebonics. All of these languages have major variants between them, but are all of them are still understood aboard. Without English the world couldn’t operate,