The New Language Landscape By Resha Krishnamurthy Sharma

Many parents believe that it is better not to speak English. When this happens the students will not receive the practice that they really need. The student must know their parents’ language it is imperative to the student’s cultural identity and has to maintain a healthy relationship with their family. Parents’ have concerns about using their native language with their children include: learning another language is too difficult it will delay their language development; the child will not be able to master either language; they will not be as proficient as the students who know one language; confusing the two languages will happen; and they will communicate in English with an accent. The school should address these concerns before the school year begins.

After independence in 1947, India adopted Hindi as its national language and decided to make it an official language too. But in a multilingual country like India, establishing an official language was not an easy task. There were, however, several problems with selecting Hindi. After independence, the hatred feelings for British rule indulged with English languages, it reminds Indian mass of the colonial rulers. However, there was also a section of people who believed that the English language has contributed somehow in the freedom struggle of India and is having the capacity to do much good for independent India too. The difference in opinion of these two sections of Indians was one of the causes of language dispute. All these had created

It then suggests that parents should maintain their home language with their children as learning their first language at home can benefit the child by making it easier for them to learn and better understand basic grammatical and linguistic rules of a second language. This also prevents the possibility for the child to lose the ability to speak their home language, as it should be supported and consolidated at home by the family.

In a country like America where people all over the world come to obtain a better future for themselves and their children, there is a large diversity in culture and languages. Most immigrant families come to America speaking a different language and have to adapt to the American language, English. However, several people do not learn English or have difficulty learning it. Usually older people struggle to learn English because they do not have time. Though, children may not have a hard time learning the English language because they are often sent to school. Currently children are now expected to learn a new foreign language, but most of the children’s families would like them to continue speaking their native language as well.

Nowadays, English is the global and technology language. English play an important role in the world and it works like a passport because it has improved a lot and became the language of technology and the language of internationals. As result, most of people developed based on English language through global businesses. In all over the world there are many opportunities that changes people life to make it better and its English language. There many non- English speaking countries that uses English as a second language and they teach subjects like science and mathematics and etc. in English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) to provide more opportunity for their development.

English as we know it is indeed the dominant language, but does that mean everyone should learn it? Should English be the global language? Should you have to know English to communicate if you are someone that lives in a place where the native language is something different? The answer is no. However, first you must consider the statement “It is a fact that English is the dominant language in the world today. Everyone, in every country, in order to participate in the modern world, should learn English. After all, a language is just a random collection of words, so how hard can it be”. Personally, I believe it is tremendously difficult to learn a new language as an adult, but in order to make the world go round, we all should know more than one language; no one language should rule. Barbara Wallraff, David Crystal, and John Tagliabue share a few words that connect to the statement to show their personal mindset behind English being a global language. In this essay, I will extract statements from each of the authors that explain their views on a global language to support my overall perception.

As we all know that, English is a global language. Language is a familiar feature of our daily life. It is a human and social activity without which human beings cannot function in the society. It is one of the basic needs, and one has to learn it. It is the flesh and blood of our culture. According to Leonard Bloomfield (1935), “Each community is formed by the activity of language.”

Over the past 35 years the number of people that speak a non-english language in the United States at home has increased by 140 percent. (‘Why your kids should learn a second language’ Early Childhood Education Zone) That means that the first language of over 55 million people in the United States is one other than English. Just imagine how many people we pass everyday whose first language is not English and we might not even realize it.

Learning to speak another language other than English is a highly debated subject in regards to education. Language in itself is an essential tool to everyday living,from whimsical conversations to important business meetings. Words have the power to inspire and change the world, but not everybody can understand the same words. There are hundreds of languages spoken around the globe how do we know which to speak? We can’t be certain. Therefore, it is not advantageous for English speakers to learn another language, there are too many languages for one to be exceptionally useful, and other countries are quickly learning English.

It would thus be quite clear that whether it is in the field of language use in education, language use in administration or in mass media, there is a constant need to weigh alternatives and plan action. The examples cited above are as true of any multilingual country as they are of India. Such examples not only establish the necessity for language planning, but also the need to analyse its process and product.

If one learns English by forcing his native tongue out of his life, the struggle to remember his native language can have a drastic impact when it comes to connecting to their non-English speaking family members. A gap grows between older and younger generations of the family, an alienation between both generations who grew up in two different languages. From personal experience, learning English was about talking to everyone in English with no reference of my native language of Tagalog and Pangasinan. As an advocate of bilingual education and a World Language Academy teacher, Jason Mizell states that a bilingual teacher should not be “stripping away [the students’] language, but...building on top of what they already have, and helping them to keep growing” (Carsen). Pushing away a mother language ends up with pushing away respect to a culture, the culture that one’s previous generations have grown up and English-only classes try to outgrow.

Language is an indispensable tool for communication. This is universally known fact. English has become a global language in the era of globalization. It is a linkage and is used vastly in all Indian and foreign libraries. The aim of teaching English in the secondary schools is to promote its pupils with sufficient knowledge of English and to aid them in their future studies and build confidence to find a suitable job. If we come to the present context, English is the language that is found in all corners of India. Now it is the language of the global trade.

Why should people nowadays see languages as a big prize? A person speaks more languages have more opportunities are skewed to him because he benefits the profit comparing to a person who speaks only one standard language. It is time for globalization and its effects on children for speaking other languages as a must. In two articles “Aria: A Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood” by Richard Rodriguez and “Whose Voice Is It Anyway?” by Victor Villanueva, the two authors both expressed their opinions on native language and how the assimilation impacts a child. However, Rodriguez believed that the assimilation was beneficial for him as he had grown up in the English-speaking world and he disliked bilingual education which created many controversy.

In my early years, I was brought up in a bilingual household of English and Hindi. My parents, both ethnic Asian Indians, were immigrants that came to the United States in their teens, hoping for a brighter future. My dad was born in England to a middle class family in the suburbs. Naturally, he adopted English as his primary language, and Hindi as his secondary language for conversation in his home. My mother was quite the opposite. Being born in India, she did not grow up in a bilingual environment. Born to a middle class family, she did not have the financial means of going to an

Globalization of the English language is the concept of using English as a global language for purpose of communication in numerous different dialects that is the movement of English towards a standard language. From history we see that twenty first century is known as the period of globalization of English language in which English has gained so much importance that it is now known as the language of the universe. It is known by every class of people from rich to poor even though its usage in the lower class society is very little but still people want to learn it for better opportunities. It has overtaken the world as the global language. Everyone irrespective of the fact where he belongs to speak English though not fluent as well as understands it very well. Education in most of the countries is given in English as it is the language of researches and technology. It is the major language of newspapers, academic conferences, diplomacy, sports and advertisement industry. Multinational companies requires their workers to be fluent in English language because they deal with their foreign business partners and customers in English language as it’s understood everywhere. The standardized form of English language came into form after planning of creating