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Essay On Native English Language

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“It is, I think, very generally assumed that a particular subset of educated native speakers in England, or New England, or wherever, have the natural entitlement to custody of the language, that the preservation of its integrity is in their hands; their right and their responsibility” (Widdowson, 1994). Discuss this view in relation to the teaching and learning of English in schools around the world.

Question for Sarah:
- Do I need to link back to the question more? Or does my introduction to each section suffice?

Throughout this essay, my main focus will be on Quark and Widdowson’s1 views and what this suggests about the quality of native and non-native English teachers, but I will also discuss English as a global language and the possibility …show more content…

English as a lingua franca is one of the many contributors to a Global English which can be defined as ‘a single variety of English…capable of functioning as an international’ language (Mooney, A & Evans, B. 2015:217). Although it may seem that we are moving towards a global English, many Linguists argue that we will never get there, for example, Moony and Evans go on to state that ‘there is no such thing as a singular global English’, Jennifer Jenkins agrees with this view and dismisses even the ability to group people into different varieties of English, saying that each person’s English is completely different, even if they have the same first language, second language learners are exposed to a completely unique set off English-interactions throughout their life. Jenkins gives an example of two Koreans, she argues that even if the two had learnt English in the same class, after a life’s worth of experiences, they would sound very different (Jenkins, J.

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