Pathway 3-Chapter 9 "The Future of English"

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SL speakers English

1

SL speakers Japanese

10

Native speakers French

10th

Native speakers Mandarin

1st

SL speakers Mandarin

2

Native speakers Spanish

2nd

SL speakers French

3

Native speakers English

3rd

SL speakers Arabic

4

Native speakers Arabic

4th

SL speakers Hindi

5

Native speakers Hindi

5th

SL speakers Russian

6

Native speakers Bengali

6th

SL speakers Spanish

7

Native speakers Portuguese

7th

SL speakers Bengali

8

Native speakers Russian

8th

SL speakers Portuguese

9

mid 20th century

9% of population spoke English as a 1st language.

Native speakers Japanese

9th

United nation of language

Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

Will grow faster.

Bengali, Tamil and Malay.

Arabic and Hindi

Catch up English in 4th and 5th position. Expected to catch up in 2050

Graddol

Companies will look for multilingual people.

UNL

Constitute the first or second language of 2.8 billion people of the planet. (40% of population)

Transformation due to

Demographics

ESL

English as a Second Language

Experts expect..

English will still be important in the future.

More than 90% of scientists literature

Has been published in English

English

Has the 3rd largest number of native speakers.

English for science

Helps scientists to collaborate internationally.

Linguistics anticipate

In the future the majority of people will speak more than one language

Probably..

Mandarin will be the next must-learn language in Asia.

David Graddol

Researcher on the future language.

Montgomery

Science is creating new words and expressions in English

Scott Montgomery

Science writer author of The Chicago Guide to Communicating Science

Montgomery

That English will increase

Graddol

That a new generation of bilingual and multilingual generation will rise.

Graddol said it is unlikely..

That one language will dominate.

2050

The population of people that speak English as 1st language will be 5 percent.

Graddol points out

The use of English as a first language has declined

Conclusion of a study

The world's language is at a crossroads, and a new linguistic order is about to emerge.

UNL

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