English Language Analysis

Human beings are different from other animals in the sense that they can speak and understand language. Language is specific for human beings. It is the major medium of expressing thoughts and emotion so human beings need to learn a language. Language is the reflection of human history through the ages. It is not only the preservation of thought, but also the presentation of the manners of its people. It is the most living medium for communicating the general facts and feelings of everyday life. Thus, it is the expression of the human mind which leads us on to a quite different kind of value. To express something means to utilize the thoughts and determined by the expression, and this expression of human persona in either written or spoken

English is the mother tongue of 300 million people in the world. The countries where English is the native or first language are the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Some other countries like India, Pakistan, Africa, France, and the Soviet Union, etc. use English as a second or foreign language. Thus English is spoken by 700 million people in the world, which is next only to the Chinese language. But there is a distribution of the speakers of the two languages. Whereas Chinese is restrained mostly to the Chinese subcontinent, English is used in all parts of the world. The speaker of English will be understood in all countries. Now English is the language of international politics, trade, commerce and industry. Today it is very necessary to learn English, because if we want to have our say in the world, we must know English, we must understand English. At present, one out of ten persons in the world knows English. 75% of the world’s mail, 50% of the world’s newspapers, over 60% of the world’s radio stations and more than 50% of the world’s scientific and technical periodicals use English as a medium of

After the independence, the position of English in India underwent a change. Meanwhile, a new angle was given to education from two sources of different character. One was from the Christian missionaries and the other from a “semi-rationalist” movement. The Christian missionaries had started their educational activities as early as 1542, upon the arrival of St.Francis Xavier. Afterwards, the movement spread throughout the land and exercised a lasting influence on Indian education. It gave a new direction to elementary education through the introduction of instruction at regular and fixed hours, a broad curriculum, and a clear-cut class system. By printing books in different vernacular languages the missionaries stimulated the development of Indian languages. The study of vernaculars went hand in hand with the teaching of western subjects through the medium of English, known in India as ‘English