1. The World of Language,
World English,
International English &
Global English
The Refection of English as
International Language
By Udomsak Sirita 550132022
3. International
English
VS
“What in the world is the World of “World or International or Global
Language?” English- and what is it anyway?”
Roger Bowers Tom McArthur
4. What is English as an
International Language?
• EIL does not refer to a particular variety of
English
• EIL emphasizes that English, with its many
varieties, is a language of international and
therefore intercultural communication
• EIL – Recognition of World Englishes,
regardless of which ‗circles‘ they belong to
(Sharifian 2)
5. What in the world is the
world of Language?
Bowers ‗ article describes & introduces :
• Some questions about language
• Public Awareness /Understanding of Language
• The World of Language Project
6. •Some questions about language
-How did I learn to talk -How did human being
and write and what -What other languages
learn to speak & write?
happens? will I hear in other
-Where did my language
-How did I learn to use countries?
come from?
words and grammar? -How many languages
-How did people sound in
-Which regional are there?
olden days?
accent/dialect do I -Why will I hear so
-Where has my language
speak? much English around
travelled in the world?
-Which varieties of the world?
-Why cant’s come people
language do I know? -Why are some
speak or write?
-How can I use languages dying and
-How can we teach and
language in exciting and how can I help?
learn languge?
enjoyable ways?
Language Language Language
in me in my society in the world
7. Public Awareness /Understanding of
Language
Why do we have to be aware?
• Negative attitudes toward foreign and minority
languages
• Language curriculum in school does not
encourage the language learning environment
• Speakers of minority languages get no credit
for it
• The neglect of language and language issues in
publicity and mass media
8. The World of Language Project
• It was immerged in 1996
• The notion of a ―museum of language‖
• It aims to promote PUL internationally and
within UK through a curriculum and workshops
• The communication means is the website
9. World or International or Global English—and what is it anyway?
Timeline of Term Coinage
Before WW II 1980 1990
10. World English
―A variety of, or the fundamental features of,
regarded as standard or acceptable wherever
English spoken..‖
(New Shorter Oxford Dictionary, 1993)
―The English language including all of its regional
varieties, such as North American, Australian, New
Zealand and South African English..‖
(New Oxford Dictionary of English, 1998)
11. International English
―The English language, usually in its standard form,
either when used, taught, and studied as a lingua
franca throughout the world..‖
―It is used to contrast with American English, British
English, South African English, etc...‖
(McArthur 398)
12. Global English
―The public international English used by globetrotting
professionals, the only kind of English which is
beginning to be truly globally dispersed.‖
• The term is related to globalization
•Globalization = a new borderless economic world
order
(McArthur 399)
13. The Use of Terms
• The general, the familiar, the established and
the comprehensive World English
• The equality of races, good social intentions, a
suggestion of standardness International
English
• Economic borderless, universal village, avoid
global dominance by English speaking
countries Global English
14. The Concerned Points of 3 Terms
• The terms still reflect the subset of standard
Englishes
• Standard Englishes are still spreading through
global technology
• They contrasts the emergence of hybrid
Englishes such as Spanglish, Gerlish and
Japlish
• Non-native English speakers out number its
native users and claim for the ownership
• Are non-native speakers more suitable for
developing EIL than native speakers?
15. The Comparison of Bowers & McArthur
Discussed Points Bowers McArthur
The importance of PUL concerns minority The emergence of hybrid
other languages languages languages
The standardization The World of Language The Terms: WE, IE and GE reflect
of a particular Project tends to be an a particular English which is
English variety institution of standard distinguish between English and
setting = World Language other languages/ Standard – Non
Standard
The influence of It can be used to Technology is used to spread out
technology internationally spread the standard English such as
political correctness, PUL Microsoft Programs and Google
16. Sources:
Bower, Roger. (1999). What in the world is the World of Language? In James E. Alatis
and Ai-Hui Tan. (eds.). Georgetown University round table on Languages and
Linguistics. Language in Our Time: Bilingual Education and Official English, Ebonics
and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative. Georgetown University
Press: Washington, D.C., pp. 389-396.
McArthur, Tom (1999). World or International or Global English—and what is it
anyway? In James E. Alatis and Ai-Hui Tan. (eds.). Georgetown University round
table on Languages and Linguistics. Language in Our Time: Bilingual Education and
Official English, Ebonics and Standard English, Immigration and the Unz Initiative.
Georgetown University Press: Washington, D.C., pp. 397-403.
Sharifian, Farzad . (2009).English as an International Language: An
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