Lingua franca

religion, a change in culture can be a partial cause for the endangerment or extinction of a language. The main factor is usually when a more powerful and pronounced language over takes the smaller subdivision languages, somewhat related to what the Lingua franca. An example of this would be in Canada. In parts of Canada such as Quebec the primary language is French, but in other many places in Canada, Toronto, Thunder Bay, Montreal, the primary language is English, so French is become less common throughout

Africa is the most fascinating continent on our planet due to the thousands of cultures that are able to thrive there. Africa is the most lingual diverse continent in the world with over three-thousand languages spoken there. The most common languages spoken in Africa are English, French, and Portuguese, however most African countries are composed of tribes, each with their own dialect of language. The issue lies in the fact that most of these languages are not mutually intelligible. Therefore

Jie Gao Student No.13031802 English localised in London – MLE: features and formation from a sociolinguistic perspective Introduction As the largest city in Europe, London is not only an important node of the global economy, but also a hub of cultures with a significantly diverse population as a consequence of globalisation. People from all over the world come to work and live here, bringing their own unique cultural and diasporic characteristics to a multicultural society. Chinatown, Italian

For those who want to benefit from life, knowing an international language like English is like catching a goldfish (it is magic). As a global language, English is breaking the obstacles in communication and exchange of cross-cultural information. According to David Crystal in the book “English as a Global Language” (2003), he states that Language has no independent existence, living in some sort of mystical space apart from the people who speak it. Language exists only in the brains and mouths and

The rapid spread of English has inspired many scholars to look into the probability of shifting from traditional ENL (English as a native language) pedagogy in ELT to EIL (English as an International Language (Jenkins 2009; Kirkpatrik 2007; Sharifian, 2009, Matsuda 2012, McKay, 2012). Taken together, the goal of teaching English today from an EIL perspective is to prepare the learners to use English to become part of the globalized world, which is linguistically and culturally various, and thus both

As languages are unstable and continually developing, many languages are constantly being established and becoming extinct. Humanity has a wide array of cultures, and each culture has its own way of communicating. This may be through symbols, signs, sounds, and most importantly, words. Language is an attribute that is unique to human beings. If one is not a speaker of the language being spoken, communication becomes arduous. This has been proven when different cultures have come across one another

CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction             Because English is so widely spoken, it has often been referred to as a "world language", the lingua franca of the modern era, and while it is not an official language in most countries, it is currently the language most often taught as a foreign language.    English is widely spoken in the Philippines. It is used as the business language as well as the medium of instruction in schools and universities.  It is the language used by

Translation Studies requires to welcome ideas from other fields of study and other cultural traditions in order to generate new concepts, theories, and models. As Tymoczko (2007) emphasized, adopting the ideas from other disciplines leads to new ways of thinking about the field of translation since it would offer translation new validity and models for practice. Gile (2008) proposes the notion of “disciplinary immigrants” for professionals in translation study that employ theories and principles

Assignment One Focus on the Learner Submission date: July 16, 2013 Word count: 875 words Learner profile In order to complete this assignment I decided to observe one of the students from the elementary group. Her name is Diana. She is 21 years old. Her background is as follows: * Diana’s first language is Kazakh, but you can say that Russian is her first language as well, since at home she uses the first one, and for education – the second. She is fluent in both languages. * Diana

parents are proud to showcase their offspring’s communication skills in English.” (Badry, 2011, p.91) It is widely accepted that the use of English as a hegemonic language has increased in a currently rapidly globalising world. It has become the lingua franca that facilitates global interconnectedness in communication and business (to name a few areas), alongside the western dominance in consumer culture and fields of innovation (Short, Boniche, Kim, and Li Li, 2001, p.3). While the official language