English has become more and more significant. In China, a big part of higher learning, is a…
Firstly, she compared the number of Chineese student who are learning English with the number of American students who are learning Chineese. The difference is HUGE. She used that to demonstrate how highly regarded this skill is to other countries. Additionally, she mentioned the amount of European Union citizens who speak more than a language to demonstrate the this skill isn't important just in China, but worldwide. Moreover, she mentioned two researches from two…
This scene demonstrates the aspirations of many modern, educated Chinese teenagers who want to participate in the international community of English-speaking nations. China depicts the most dramatic example of a near global hunger for English that has brought the English language to its position as the dominant lingua franca in the world.…
Being able to understand English has its advantages, such as applying for health insurance, doing paper work, voting, or any government operations. All the necessities in an American lifestyle are to obtain the English language. Anything people do in the U.S traced back to speaking, reading, and writing in the English Language. Countries around Europe and Asia are slowly learning English, too. Even if individuals are code switching, style shifting, covert or overt prestige, some aspects of English language is developing or have a small taste learning…
The English language is said to be the global lingua franca that is used by several countries so as to communicate with other countries. That is why we need to be proficient in speaking it. One of the few countries which made English as their official second language is the Philippines. The need for knowing the English language increases because of globalization and our connections, relations and transactions with other countries. Because of this great need, schools from all over the world require the study of the English language. Students even tend to study English outside of their country so as to suffice their need of the language.…
Nowadays English has a special and predominant role in the communicative sphere of the world. It has also a special identity in the field of education.…
It is commonly believed that Chinese English is a variety of English. It is mainly used for communication and association between Chinese and foreigners. It takes Standard English as core and it is of Chinese Characteristics at the same time. “Taking Standard English as core” ensures that Chinese English’s intelligibility and acceptability as a medium of information. At the same time, “with Chinese characteristics” make up the relative lack of thinking mode of Chinese traditional culture in Standard English.…
Firstly, it is for travel. When a person travels to another part of the world either for the sake of business or even as a tourist, the languages may differ. In these conditions, English is the language that helps people to deal with the situation. It is like a universal language. English language also acts as a communication tools. For example, in countries like India, where the land is so vast with people of various cultures live, the languages of each part of the country also differ. Under the circumstances, English can be the only link as people in each place will not be able to learn all the other languages to communicate with the people. English bridges this gap and connects the people.…
English as an international language has become very important to be learned and understood by many people. It is the only one way to communicate between countries, cultural groups, various companies and organizations, communities and friends all over the world. By mastering English, people can enrich their knowledge and survive in this competitive atmosphere. Because of the importance of English above, now English is introduced earlier to children at a very young age. Children are acquainted with English in kindergarten and elementary school.…
English. What is English? English is a language spoken by the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms of England a long, long time ago.…
The parents, teachers and the politicians believe that English is important as the English status in the world is higher than other language. For the parents, they hope their son or daughter can study as the English-medium secondary school rather than the Chinese-medium school, they believes mainly study can increase the opportunity of enroll to the university and let their children go oversea for further study. For the teachers, many teaching material are come from foreign country, so they believe that use the English for teaching purpose can have a better education quality. For the politicians, be the part of global, the politician needs to communicate and cooperate with other country to formulate the international policy, so they choose the English be the common language for communication. English become important language is mainly have two reasons. English has appeared as the world's unofficial international language. According to the data of Ethnologic, English is listed as the official or co-official language of over 45 countries(including Hong Kong)and is spoken extensively in other countries where it has no official status. The second reason is English is the language of science, aviation, business, diplomacy, and tourism. Many business deals in Hong Kong are conducted in English. 60% of all scientific papers and journals are written in English. Over 70% of all mail is written and addressed in English. Most international tourism, aviation and diplomacy is mainly conducted in English. I remember there have an example in the lecture Chinese plot have poor English…
In this period, thousands of people learning English as their foreign language. They have many diverse reasons for learn it. The first and most obvious one is communication: you might want (or need) to communicate with someone who only…
Little or much, well or poorly, many of us today have learnt English. But have we ever come up with an ask questioning why we basically do that? In my learning English, many people have asked me why I learn English. Normally, I would answer either saying that I just simply enjoy it or explaining it for the want to better communicate with the foreign people. And I guess most of people would think it so or probably agree more to the latter one.…
We live in a fascinating world. Our duty is to simply discover it and to marvel…