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Globalization Of English As A Foreign Language

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Although I am Chinese, I am writing this essay in English. In fact, I spend most of my time communicating with others, expressing myself, and learning new knowledge in English. Regardless of my race, I, similar to many people across the world, use English as a primary language in my daily life. Most will agree that English is the international language of the world. To this day, English has been the most widely spread language around the globe. It is the official language of over 50 countries and the third most spoken language worldwide (Lewis, Gary, & Charles, 2010). However, despite the contributions English has made to the merging of a global village, the spreading of English will lead to the displacement of local languages and cultural identities. It threatens to replace many regional languages by dominating the daily communications of individuals, and furthermore, destroying their cultural identities in the process.
The globalization of English will result in the displacement of local languages since it will reduce the usage of regional languages and slowly replacing them in the process. This is similar to cases when a more widely used language replaces other ones which are less commonly used. In the case of Australia, according to a 2007 news article, almost all of the 231 native dialects were endangered and this is most likely due to the dominant of English (Wilford, 2007). That number today might also possibly be lower than that since the published of the article.

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