TAILIEUCHUNG - ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE SECOND EDITION

In this section of the questionnaire, students were asked to indicate the extent or degree of agreement to whether they felt more confident in writing assignments in their core academic modules and in writing academic research papers, again based on a five-point Likert scale with 1 for strongly disagree, 3 for neutral, and 5 for strongly agree. The majority of students either agreed or strongly agreed that after taking the course, they felt more confident in writing assignments in their core academic modules (78%) as well as in writing academic research papers in their respective disciplines (80%). . | English as a global language Second edition DAVID CRYSTAL III Cambridge UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1RP United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building Cambridge CB2 2RU UK 40 West 20th Street New York NY 10011-4211 USA 477 Williamstown Road Port Melbourne VIC 3207 Australia Ruiz de Alarcon 13 28014 Madrid Spain Dock House The Waterfront Cape Town 8001 South Africa http David Crystal 1997 2003 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1997 Second edition 2003 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press Cambridge Typefaces Galliard 13 pt and Formata System LTEX2s tb A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 521 82347 1 hardback ISBN 0 521 53032 6 paperback Contents List of tables page vii Preface to the second edition ix Preface to the first edition xii 1 Why a global language 1 What is a global language 3 What makes a global language 7 Why do we need a global language 11 What are the dangers of a global language 14 Could anything stop a global language 25 A critical era 27 2 Why English The historical context 29 Origins 30 America 31 Canada 36 The Caribbean 39 Australia and New Zealand 40 South Africa 43 South Asia 46 Former colonial Africa 49 South-east Asia and the South Pacific 54 A world view 59

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