NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SAN MARTÍN

Faculty of Education and Humanities

Professional School of Languages

ENGLISH AS A WORLD LANGUAGE.

COSMOPOLITAN VOCABULARY
COURSE: History

TEACHER: Lic. Mg. Carlo Espinoza Aguilar

CYCLE: VII
MEMBERS: Delgado Cercado Erika Guisela
Estela Ruiz Thalia Breme
Soto Tuanama Ruth Carola
Torres Toro Sadith
Sandra Tejada Loja
2023
 INTRODUCTION
English is spoken in most parts of the world, for
instance in Great Britain, the USA, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand and in many more
countries. Moreover in African states English
serves as main form of communication. English is,
after the Chinese one, the language most people
speak and it is the most popular second language
and foreign language pupils learn in school.
 ENGLISH
AS A
WORLD
LANGUAGE
 ¿WHAT IS A GLOBAL
LANGUAGE?
A language achieve a genuinely global status
when it develops a special role that is recognized
in every country. Such a role will be most evident
where a large number of people speak the
language as a mother tongue (the USA, Canada,
Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South
Africa, several Caribbean countries, etc. We hear
it on TV, spoken by politicians from all over the
world. We see English movies and
advertisements.
 WHY DO WE NEED A
GLOBAL LANGUAGE?
Communication is a very vital part of progress in every field.
This can be achieved only when there exist a ‘lingua franca’
(common language).
Sometimes, when
communities begin to trade The need for A conversation
with each other, they a global language is particularly over the Internet is
communicate by adopting a appreciated by the at present
simplified language, known international academic and practicable only if a
as a pidgin, which combines business communities. common language is
elements of their different
available.
languages.
 THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES
OF A GLOBAL LANGUAGE
ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES
Facilitates communication between Presents challenges for non-native speakers in the
different cultures: Language has always sciences: scientists need to clearly communicate their
been the focal point of cultural identity. A findings, conclusions and methods, and for some non-
global language dismantles native speakers, that can be strenuous.
communication barriers and offers Poses a threat to minority languages: In this last
individuals a gateway to understanding century, some 400 languages have become extinct and
one another’s cultures. in the next century, 50% of all remaining languages will
Facilitates international trade: a global become extinct. People who speak a global language
language eliminates the communication have greater opportunities for employment, education
barrier, promoting greater international and overall success. Therefore, some minority
trade and opportunities for economic language speakers believe that learning to speak a
growth. global language will benefit them financially.
 WE SPEAK ENGLISH BUT DO WE KNOW
WHERE IT COMES FROM?
The history of English begins a little after A.D The ancestors of the language were wandering in the forests
of northern Europe. Their language was a part of Germanic branch of Indo European Family.

English came to England in the 5th century and began to spread

around the British Isles. It entered parts of Wales, Cornwall,
Cumbria, and southern Scotland, traditionally the strongholds of the
Celtic language.
After the Norman invasion of 1066, many nobles from England fled
north to Scotland, where they were made welcome, and eventually
the language spread throughout the Scottish lowlands.
Three hundred years later, the progress of English towards its status
as a global language took place. In India, Thomas Macaulay (1835)
proposed the introduction of an English educational system.
THREE PHASES OF ENGLISH
LANGUAGE
MODERN ENGLISH
MIDDLE ENGLISH
Between English underwent
OLD ENGLISH
Between many important some changes. One change
When England was changes took place in the was the elimination of a vowel
established there structure of English and sound in certain unstressed
were several Old English became positions at the end of the
kingdoms. It was this Middle English. The sound words. The period of Early
period that the best system & grammar wasn’t Modern English was also a
of the Old English so effected but vocabulary period of English Renaissance,
literature was written. was effected much. which means the development
of the people.
DANGERS OF GLOBAL LANGUAGE
The benefits which would flow from the existence of a global
language are considerable but several commentators have pointed to
possible risks.

1 Linguistic power: People who speak it as mother tongue

could be in a privileged position.

2 Linguistic Complacency: It could eliminate the motivation

for adults to learn other languages.

3 Linguistic Death: It could contribute to the disappearance of

minority languages and cultures. Studies showed that at least
50 % of the world’s 6,000 or so living languages will die out
within the next century. This is indeed an intellectual and
social tragedy.
COULD ANYTHING STOP A GLOBAL
LANGUAGE?
The short answer must be ‘yes’. If language dominance is a matter
of political and especially economic influence, then a revolution in
the balance of global power could have consequences for the
choice of global language. English is now so widely established that
it can no longer be thought of as ‘owned’ by any single nation. A
rather more plausible scenario is that an alternative method of
communication could emerge which would eliminate the need for
a global language.
 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
In order to establish the language a dictionary was developed.
The first English Dictionary was published in Another product
of the 18th century was the invention of English Grammar. The
period where English developed most in the Modern English.
In that period the people speaking that language increased
too much. Now, English is the greatest language of the world
spoken natively and as a second language.
 CONCLUSION
Language is very important in our life as means of communication. As a
global community, we really need a language which can be used as a
means of global communication. In this case, English has become an
international or a global language. So, every people in this world should be
able to communicate in English in order to participate in global affairs
In teaching English as an international language, there are many theories,
methodologies, and techniques that can be applied. However, as teachers,
we should realize that there is no one best method for all contexts. So, it
needs teacher's sense of plausibility to select the appropriate methods,
techniques, and materials that reflect local culture and meet student's
needs to develop language proficiency.
COSMOPOLITAN
VOCABULARY
CHARACTER OF ITS VOCABULARY
1
English is classified
as a Germanic
language.
4 Half of its vocabulary
is derived from Latin.

It belongs to the group of Some of these borrowings have

been direct, a great many

5
languages to which German

2 , Dutch, Flemish, Danish,

Swedish, and Norwegian as
through French, or some from
Romance languages (Spanish,
Portuguese, French, Italian and
belong.
Romanian).

English has shown a

•Similar grammatical

3
marked tendency to go

6
structure and many
outside its own linguistic
common words.
resources and borrow
from other languages.
 ENGLISH AS UNUSUAL CAPACITY
FOR ASSIMILATING
Native Americans:Chipmunks, Hominy, Moose, Raccoon, skunk
Dutch:Brandy, cruller, landscape, measles, uproar, wagon
Italian:Balcony, canto, duet, granite, opera, piano, umbrella, volcano
Spanish:Alligator, cargo, contraband, cork, hammock,
mosquito,sherry, stampede, tornado, vanilla
Greek:Acme, acrobat, anthology, barometer.
Russian:Vodka, ruble, troika, glasnost, perestroika.
Persian:Caravan, dervish, divan, khaki, mogul, shawl, sherbet
Jasmine, paradise, check, chess, lemon, lilac, turban, borax, spinach.
English (etymological dictionary) has borrowed words from Hebrew,
Arabic, Hungarian, Hindi-Urdu, Bengali, Malay, Chinese.
 ENGLISH AS UNUSUAL
CAPACITY FOR ASSIMILATING
Languages of Java, Australia, Tahiti, Polynesia, West Africa, and from one
of the Aboriginal languages of Brazil.
Many students of second language learning support the impression in
vocabulary acquisition.
Faux amis-those words that have different meanings in two different
languages.
Cognates generally are learned more rapidly and retained longer than
words that are unrelated to words in the native language lexicon.
Therefore, the cosmopolitan vocabulary of English with its cognates in
many languages is undoubted asset.
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