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Group: FP-TEFL_2017-10_unini
Date: October 6th / 2018
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More than 10 years have gone by since the original statement. Find updated
figures supporting or refuting the hypothesis. If possible, find sources for the
last five years.
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Figure 1.
Top 25 World Languages.
Note. Global Trends in Foreign Language Demand and Proficiency. © 2014 UNESCO.
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academic courses’’. In other words an English learner is a person who decides to learn
that language, it can be considered as a second language, or foreign language, but
that person attends English instructions in order to reach a level of proficiency in the
four macro skills. Those students belong either to schools or academic institutions
where institutional policies pretend no only to teach them, but also giving learners the
appropriate tools to communicate fluently in the other language.
Evidently, The following table permits to say that Graddol`s argument around
the rise and fall of English learners has been sustained since the current research
supports it’s affirmation.
Table 1.
Comparative table.
On the other hand, although it is true and there is very difficult to find more
detailed studies in reference to the possible declination of English. According to
Gradoll’s there are some tendencies such as demography, economic, technology,
society and language trends, as a result it is viable to say his conclusions are not out of
context, for instance he states.
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Finally, once checked the previous arguments and comparing to the current
results it is possible to conclude there exist a high grade of implications that confirm
Gradoll´s Hypothesis.
Based on the figures you had, propose your own claim to the future development
of English as a Foreign Language. Take into account the figures you found, the
materials of the class, the readings available in the campus and other external
sources that you might deem relevant.
Firstly, English is and will be unless until the majority of countries that pretend to
reach the English as a second language and become learners in Bilingual people, an
international language that can overcome even Spanish and being a rival of mandarin
in terms of number of students. Consequently, while people around the world study
English, it is compulsory to supply the necessity of English Professors, not only native
one, but masters in the way of teaching too.
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Second, now and in the future people will realize that being a native or listening
to them it is not the only resource they have. By contrary the more opportunities and
necessities to communicate in English they have, the more students will enroll in
different programs in order to communicate effectively. On the whole with the aim to
participate in the fashion tendency ‘’ globalization’’
Third, It is true that a language like English can decline keeping in mind the fact
that English, like all other languages, is subject to that constant growth and decay that
characterize all forms of life, due to demography, economic, technology, society,
language trends or even any other factor that can occur in the future, it is possible to
conclude people who already learnt it will get that gift ( in the case it may occur) to
overcome the situation learning another one easier than starting from zero, because
the communication among them will allow to reuse effective strategies used in English.
Finally, we as professors must teach our students from the reflection, I means
that English is more than a language, because we find people who do not handle the
language with perfection, in other words there were not taught around the basic skills,
but they have contributed in their lives/ countries, because they were aware about their
needs and motivations. It was possible because they were not taught but they were
formed. It is here when we can see the difference between a teacher and an educator.
Or between students who always wait for the fish or the ones that learnt how to get the
fish. This language is important but if one day it declines, English students have learnt
what is possible to do with the knowledge acquired.
REFERENCES.
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