The Spread Of English The Spread Of English Topic 2 – Group 8 Table of Contents Introduction 01 The period of English Evolution 02 Towards as a global language The 3 circles 03 English as a global lan.
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English
Topic 2 – Group 8
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Introduction
01
The period of English
Evolution
02
Towards as a global language
The 3 circles
03
English as a global
language
Conclusion
04
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Why has English become a global language?
Trang 4With more than 350 million people around the world speaking English as a first language and more than 430 million speaking it as a second language, there are English speakers in most countries around the world
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Towards as a global language
Trang 6The Spread of English
1763
When Canada became a British possession, it had almost no English-speaking
settlers
1658
The settler population of
Jamaica (from Britain, Ireland
and the Americas) was 7,000
Late 18th century
The British Empire had spread English through its colonies and geopolitical dominance
Trang 7English was adopted in parts of North America, parts of Africa, Australasia, and many other regions.
Trang 8British (later US) trading and
colonialism also brought English to other areas where there were no large settlements of native English
speakers.
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English as a global language
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The fact that English is now an influential world language is not in
any way due to its superiority as a language but is a result of the
activities of its speakers over the centuries.
First-language speakers: 375 million Second-language speakers: 375 million Foreign-language speakers: 750 million
Trang 11Modern English
1828
Noah Webster published the American Dictionary of the English language to try to establish a norm for speaking and writing American English that was independent of the British standard
1755
Samuel Johnson published his A
Dictionary of the English Language,
which introduced standard spellings
of words and usage norms
Trang 12Today, English constitutes the most widely used language of our time From a regional language that was by large influenced by many other languages, it has developed to the world’s number-one communication system, if you wish a global lingua franca, and the influence on other languages is
omnipresent.
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