26/08/2017
PTE Essay 31: English
English is the most likely candidate for global language in 21st century. Despite having many languages around the world, it remains official language in almost 100 countries. As majority of the people speak English, it will take centuries to replace it with some other power language. So in my opinion English language will remain as the global language despite globalization.
Ever since English has been adapted as international language, it has become language of conversation between two people of different countries and culture. It has rapidly become the world language and over a billion of people speak it. For example: In any international summit or conference, English acts as the means of communication.
To achieve international peace and coexistence, there is strong need for one common world language and English has come very close to it. Globalization is bound to happen and if ever any country like China became global superpower in the future, will Mandarin (language of China) get the same status as of English? I doubt the idea.
The academic curriculum in schools and colleges across the world has made English as their mandatory language. It has become the lingua franca of science. English is now the language of business, pop culture and overall it is associated with globalization. The companies are marking their products in English language too to market them globally so it will very tedious process to change it.
Three quarters of the world’s overall population are English speakers. There are fewer chances of any other language to enjoy the international status. In my opinion, English Language will continue to be the global language.
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There are so many benefits of learning English and they can be found in many sides such as in international business community, technology field, education, and in the social life.
In international business environment, English holds an important role to make the business goes well. English is very useful when company build cooperation with another international company from different country. To become the winner of the hard competition in business world, businessman must be able to understand and use English well. Besides that, a company prefers to hire an employee who has a good skill in language, especially English. However, by understanding English will improve the prospect for employment in business environment and help the businessman able to handle the business problem efficiently
English takes a large part in the growth of technology. Almost every electronic devices use English especially computing and internet. That is because most of scientists write in English although some of them use English as their second language. English is not only use in the hardware but it is used in the software also. Every command in the computer is in English and to operate it people should understand English first. In the internet, there is a lot of information written in English such as e-mail, blog, and social network. It shows that learning English gives many benefits to the advance of technology.
In education, the international student should have capability to speak, read, and write in English. A student can access any information in the books, internet, and magazine with the help of English. Successful academic career depend on how deep the understanding of student in English because in international standard education English is the primary language which used in learning process. Besides that, if the students know English well, they also will be able to read and understand the great work in literature that related with their study which written in English. In this case, English can be assuming as the root of the international education.
As a social creature, people will continuously interact with the other in various social lives. In this case English become unifier of the difference in language. People will be easier to express their idea about something or exchange information in English to the other people from different country. English is the tool for digging information deeper and deeper again to know what actually happen in the world. If people have a good capability to speak in English, it will be widening their knowledge because they will be able to understand more information than those who are not good in English
