Language spread
What is the status of English language in the world at the moment?
As a Global Language
The language which a person has grown up speaking from early childhood.
Mother Tongue
The ability to speak more than one language.
Mutlilingualism
A model which classifies the ways English is used in the world
Kachru's Circle Model
the different kinds of English used around the world.
Varities of English/World Englishes
When did Braj Kachru develop The Kachru's Circle Model?
in 1985
What is SAE?
South African English
What does 'robot' means in South African English?
Traffic Light
What is Subway in British English?
Underground
What is 'Petrol' in American English?
Gasoline
is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages
Lingua Franca
What language the Vikings speaks?
Clue: It is a North Germanic language that was the ancestor to modern Scandinavian languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, and Faroese.
Old Norse
English is spoken as a first language by around how many speakers?
375 million
In the world, English is spoken as a second language by how many speakers?
750 million
American English did adopt vast numbers of new words from Europe and beyond. Cookies and Coleslaw are ones of them. Which country/language those words are originated from?
The netherlands/The Ducth
Mention at least 5 countries which are included in the Outer Circle of Kacru's Circle Model.
India, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Malaysia, Tanzania, Singapore, Kenya and Afrikaans-speaking regions of South Africa
The dominance of a language over another; imposing one language, usually a language associated with power and control, upon the speakers of another language
Language imperialism
Mention atleast 5 countries which belong to the expanding circle of Kachru's Circle Model
China, Russia, Japan, Korea, Egypt, Indonesia
A well-known language shifting example is the“English only” in America where most of Native Americans were forced to use English instead of using their mother tongue. It was started from the amendment of Arizona that proposed the “English only” in......... and adopted by Utah government to force their people to use English.
1988
Mention atleast 5 countries which belong to the inner circle of Kachru's Circle Model
UK, US, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, English-Speaking regions of Canada and South Africa
Mention in which fields that English is used as the only worldwide recognised language. (minimum 4)
Trade, Scientific research, International affairs, Internet, United Nations, Aviation (Pilots and Air traffic Controllers), Police agencies
In Britain,Standard English and RP spread quickly when the BBC (the Bristich Broadcasting Corporation) was formed in....., broadcasting radio.
1922
The amalgamation of two or more different languages to form a new distinctinve variety with native speakers is the process of?
Creolisation
Mention the four types of language death proposed by Mesthrie and Leap in 1995
Gradual death, Sudden death, Radical death, Bottom to top death
Mention three Ghanaian regional languages that were disappeared because of English authority!
Nabit, Sisaala, and Likpapkaln