Global Language

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Globalization accelerates the tight connection of folks from around the world. The most severe challenge people face is communicating with each other. Japanese, Chinese and others, all of them are international language. Although there are a slew of official multilingual ways used by a number of population, the English, is the most widely spoken tool which called global language. Because when people from different background need a lingua franca, in modern society it is English. The prominent characteristic of a global language is that People feel the need to master it for their life.(Nunan,2001) English gains a status as a global language when it has a particular role that is recognized in every country (Crystal, 1997) It is also raises a question that why global language is English. So this article mainly analyzes how social factors have influenced the development of English into a global language.

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through academic and literary works, education, and other means specifically. In academic contexts, Swales (1987) estimated that more than 50% of the millions of academic papers published each year are written in English, and the percentage grew with the years. In specific disciplines like science and technology, English appears to be current language of communication. In addition, Berns, de Bot & Hasebrink (2007) explain that youth plays an important role in today’s globalization and the spread of English. Indeed, English Teaching for children and adolescents will cause their understanding of the world in accordance with the pattern of the English speaking. More and more countries are preparing to regard English as the first foreign language. it is also worth mentioning that, in the first half of twentieth Century, the United Kingdom and the United States has become the world 's major producer of cultural products, so they spread English to all corners of the

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