colonies in Africa. He calls this linguistic imperialism, a cultural correlate of political imperialism. In this case the dominating language is imposed on a people and on the indigenous languages and consequently the dominated language begins to experience functional loss and eventually shrink structurally. Phillipson’s main argument here is that the monolingual language policies favoring European languages are not accidental; they are part of the grand scheme by the former colonial powers to keep
The Spread of English Globalization made the world as a small village which needed a global language to enable people, from different places and cultures around the world, to communicate with each other. Nevertheless, one most important outcome of globalization is the increased spread of languages, particularly the English language. language Globalization can be defined as the correlations of global political, economic, cultural and environmental processes that modify present positions
Described by famous linguistic Noam Chomsky, “Language serves essentially for the expression of thought.” Language is used every day to convey our thoughts in social situations. Unfortunately, this includes negative and racist expressions of thought. Language was used as a tool during colonization to diminish indigenous languages in Africa through linguistic imperialism. Linguistic imperialism is the idea that one language is superior to another on the premise of societal convenience. For example
thousand five hundred million people worldwide speak English, of whom three hundred seventy five million are native speakers (McKay 2016). Therefore, English language is now considered as an international language, and it is often taught as a foreign language accompanied by teaching both American and British Cultural studies. Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), in simple words, means the teaching of English language in a non-English-speaking region. Education in American and British cultures
The hegemony of English and the response in China Under the background of economic globalization, the infiltration and integration of languages and cultures in every country is spreading. English, as a language spreading quickly, has been influencing almost every domain in Chinese modern daily life. China is the only country which preserves its own language with a history of more than 5,000 years; even so, it is faced with the challenge from other languages, especially English. From my perspective
English is power “ Power to control” language is influential authority of the most powerful nation, “Latin is an Indo-European language. Have a genetic relationship of large numbers of similarities both in vocabulary and grammar with Greek, Russian, Dutch, Farsi, English and many other ancient languages.” It is the mother of all languages. It was spoken mainly in Rome and in the plain of Latium in the 6th or 7th century B.C. and carried around the world to be the language of the Civilization by
It is unquestionable that English today enjoy a significant status as the most worldwide spoken language. It becomes part of daily life of many people for many reasons: enjoyment, academic, economic, and other purposes. It is spoken throughout the world either as a first or second language, not only with English speakers, but with people of different first languages. Crystal (1994) describes its status as ‘global language’ where it started to have ‘a special role that is recognized in every country
or a Curse? The status of English as today?s most widely-used language has regularly been a topic of wonderment and alarm to observers. Although the global dominance of English carries with it great possibilities, development, and increased knowledge, there are also prominent concerns about the negative impacts such a powerful language has on local cultures. For English Language Teaching practitioners, much of the discussion about linguistic and cultural imperialism spins around the issue of whether
Media within globalization has been understood in several ways: -The cultural imperialism argument emphasizes the information technology divide within which dominant cultures impose information, products, and values on those of less dominant ones. -The hybridization thesis stresses that globalization of economy, trade, and migration has created cultures that are hybridized, mixed, syncretic and composite. Globalization creates combinations of sameness and difference: center to periphery, periphery
An integral system of education influence social ideas. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan realizes the importance of education and much focus on education. After the British occupation Muslim did not take the English language and thus denied the opportunities of government job. Sir Syed Ahmed Khan started the Aligarh movement. In fact Aligarh movement was a symbol of Muslim nationalism in education field. Most of the Muslim in sub-continent were poor they did