(Richards, Platt & Weber, Longman Dictionary of Applied Linguistics)

The role of English in countries where it is taught as a subject in schools but not used as a medium of instruction in education or as a language of communication (e.g., in government, business or industry) within the country.
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Warm –up Questions
Read the title: World English: A Blessing Or A Curse? 1.Think about the concept of world English and International language. 2.Brainstorm situations with English as international language: something positive and something negative.
(Richards, Platt & Weber, Longman Dictionary of Applied Linguistics)




ESL Context Availability of English input in the social context Many are immigrants who need to acquire English There is not a common L1
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Revised Edition
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Lesson One
World English:
A Blessing Or A Curse?
2Cataຫໍສະໝຸດ ogueBackground Information Warm-up Questions Main Idea Language Points Difficult Sentences Keys to the Exercises
ELF interactions are defined as interactions between members of two or more different linguacultures in English, for none of whom English is the mother tongue (House, 1999, p.74).
The role of English for immigrant and other minority groups in English-speaking countries. These people may use their mother tongue at home or among friends, but use English at school or at work. This is sometimes called English for Speakers of Other Languages or ESOL.
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Warm –up Questions
3. Do you think it is beneficial for ESL to learn English as a world language? Is it necessary?
4. If you were asked to choose a world language from the existing languages, which would you prefer and why?
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Background Information
Dr Tom McArthur is founder editor of the Oxford Companion to the English Language (1992)and the quarterly English Today: The International Review of the English Language (Cambridge,1985-). His more than 20 published works include the Longman Lexicon of Contemporary English (1981), Worlds of Reference: Language, Lexicography (辞典编纂学) and Learning
The most famous and widespread artificial international language is Esperanto(世界语); however, the most widespread international languages are not artificial.


EFL Context Little availability of English input in the social context Often little motivation to learn English (TENAR) There is a common L1
Kachru argues that speakers in the Outer Circle have an institutionalized variety of English, which he describes in the following manner :
Other languages have more restricted regional use, such as Spanish in Spain and Latin America, Arabic in the Middle East, and Russian in the republics of the former USSR.
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More expressions ●World English (Used in the text) ●Global English ●Common English ●Continental English ●General English From Wikipedia
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English as International Langauage (EIL)
International English often refers to English as it is actually being used and developed in the world; as a language owned not just by native speakers, but by all those who come to use it. It is certainly also commonly used in connection with the acquisition, use, and study of English as the world's lingua franca, and especially when the language is considered as a whole in contrast with British English, American English, South African English, and the like.
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In medieval Europe, Latin was the principal international language. Today, English is used in more countries as an official language or as the main means of international communication than any other language.
The institutionalized second-language varieties have a long history of acculturation in new cultural and geographical contexts; they have a large range of functions in the local educational, administrative, and legal system. The result of such uses is that such varieties have developed nativized discourse and style types and functionally determined sublanguages (registers) and are used as a linguistic vehicle for creative writing . (p.19)
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International Languages and History and Develpment International languages include both existing languages that have become international means of communication and languages artificially constructed to serve this purpose.