I. THE CHANGING WORLD OF ENGLISH.

-Why did English become such an important language?

English became such an important language because first it became a lingua franca that was a language used widely for communications between people who do not share the same first language. So they needed to communicate with someone else.

After developing for almost a millennium on the British Isles, English was taken around the world by the sailors, soldiers, pilgrims, traders and missionaries of the British Empire. By the time anything resembling a language policy was introduced, English had already reached all corners of the globe. For example, English-speaking puritans were not the only Europeans to arrive in North America: Spanish, French, Dutch and German were also widely spoken. All of the languages were reinforced by waves of immigration from Europe in the following centuries in which

But in the process of designing a “United” States, the USA’s founders knew the importance of language for national identity. English was the majority language and had to be encouraged. As recently as the start of the 20^th Century, several states banned the teaching of foreign languages in private schools and homes. The U.S. Supreme Court only struck down restrictions on private language education in 1923.

Some important things to consider in the important of the English language were.

The economics because militaries prowess may account for initial establishment of language, as we have seen, but it is economic power that ensures its survival and growth. A major factor in the growth of English has been the spread of global commerce, pushed on by the dominance of the United States as world economic power.

Information exchange a great deal of academic discourse around the world tales place in English. It is often a lingua franca of conferences, for example, and may journal articles in fields as diverse as astrophysics and zoology have English as a default language.

Travel. Much travel and tourism is carried on, around the world, in English. Of course this is not always the case, as the multilingualism of many tourism workers in different countries demonstrates.

Popular culture. In the western world, at least, English is a dominating language in popular culture. Pop music in English saturates the planets airwaves. Thus many people who are not English speakers can sing words from their favorite’s English-medium songs.

-Why do you consider it continues being so important?

Today’s economy is increasingly globalized, and this means that many of us are interacting across cultures in a way we never did before. In such an economy, the importance of learning English becomes self-evident. Learning English helps you to communicate across cultures and to conduct business in lands you may never have previously considered viable markets. It also helps you to address customers in the language that they understand best and in which they are most comfortable communicating. Additionally, the importance of learning English is emphasized every day when we see the diversity of earth’s cultures and the amazing array of people that make up our global community.

That said, there is another reason supporting the importance of learning English. Scientific studies have shown that learning English improves brain function and stimulates creativity. When you know a new language, you start to see connections you didn’t see before because every language approaches the world in a slightly different way. As a result, you have the opportunity to understand the world from the perspective of another culture and gain a greater appreciation of human society in all its diversity. As a consequence, the importance of learning English is again reinforced. You become not just equipped to communicate across cultures but empowered to understand others’ points of view.

-How do you predict the future of English?

We have noticed that the English is spoken by at least a quarter of the world’s population. It is important, too, to realize that this is not spoken by three quarters of that same population. However, it is clear from the way its use has grown in the last decade that this situation is about to change.

One way of predicting the future is to look back at the past. The global role English plays today as a lingua franca – used as a means of communication by speakers of different languages – has parallels in the Latin of pre-modern Europe.

Having been spread by the success of the Roman Empire, Classical Latin was kept alive as a standard written medium throughout Europe long after the fall of Rome. But the Vulgar Latin used in speech continued to change, forming new dialects, which in time gave rise to the modern Romance languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian and Italian.

Similar developments may be traced today in the use of English around the globe, especially in countries where it functions as a second language. New “interlanguages” are emerging, in which features of English are mingled with those of other native tongues and their pronunciations. The English language will take the main language in the whole word to communicate and to share the different opinions that the people have.

What we think is that English grow and native speakers are becoming less and less powerful in the daily use of the language, we will have to adjust the way in which both native and non-native experts have traditionally thought learning and teaching English around the word.