Pathway 3-Chapter 9 "The Future of English"
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.
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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.
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