Manrique Miguel Jr. A.

EW7
T-TH 2:30-4PM/LAH 313
Aug 27,2019

English as a Global Language

1)What is a Global Language?

Based on what I read, a global language is a language that is recognized and used by
the whole human race as a language. So basically, it is used everywhere where we can
communicate openly and understand one another regardless of what country we came
from. There are status to determine what is a global language. First, it must be used as
a medium of communication in such domains as government, the law courts, the media
and the educational system which means it must be a first language that is used in
every aspect of where we reside at. Second, a global language can be made a priority
in a country’s foreign-language teaching. For example, In 1996, English replaced
French as the chief foreign language in schools in Algeria (a former French colony).
As such there is great variation in the reason for choosing a particular global language.
It included historical tradition, political expediency, and the desire for commercial,
cultural or technological contact. In a nutshell English is all govern by the status as a
global language. It is not just randomly picked a global language because a lot of
people use it. It must have structures to qualify for a global language and these are the
status to tell a global language.

2) Why a global language?

In what I read, a language has traditionally become an international language for one
chief reason. The power of its people-especially their political and military power. So
that’s why before in the Greek became a global language before is because of their
political and military power. It all falls from this state and I know that the United States
has the most advance military power the world has ever seen and the brightest political
power, but that doesn’t mean that international language dominance is not solely the
result of military might. It may an economically powerful one to maintain and to expand
it. That’s the reason why some of the best military power like Greece fell down and
doesn’t use this as a global language because they didn’t economically maintain and
expand it.
Also a language does not become a global language because of its intrinsic structural
properties, or because of the size of its vocabulary, or because it has been a vehicle of
a great literature in the past, or because it has been a vehicle of a great literature or
religion. These are all factors which can motivate someone to learn a language, of
course, but none of them alone, or in combination, can ensure a language’s world
spread, as we mentioned earlier it is based on the political and military power. It is not
seen whether your country has amazing buildings and rich vocabulary. It is not seen if
your country has a spectacular literature. It is all only factors to motivate them learn the
language and English language was chosen because it has less grammar that any
other language and it meet the requirement for all of it.
3) How do we effectively communicate globally through writing?
For me, we can communicate effectively by knowing what words to use and how to
construct sentences and when will we put punctuations in a sentence. It all starts on
how we understand “Lingua Franca” or in common language. If we better understood
what words we are using, people won’t mis interpret what we mean to say in a certain
topic when it comes to writing. How we construct a sentence is also important
sometimes we might have some grammatically error in the sentence we construct and it
might twist what we it might mean. Using punctuation is also a must because we might
deliver a sentence in a wrong way. Set for example we want peace in the world we want
to express these 3 words to sum it up we want to say: “No more war!” it means no more
war but if we put the punctuation at the first word “No! more war” it means we want
more war so what we meant didn’t deliver on what we intently want to say. For me this
is how we can effectively communicate globally through writing.