The Importance Of English In The Chinese Language

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The Chinese language and Portuguese are the official languages which can be used by the executive authorities, legislature and judiciary of the Macau Special Administrative Region (The Basic Law of the Macau, 1993). Since the population of Macau society became diversity, the language policy is not close to current Macau society. According to the report of Resultados dos Censos (2011), beside Cantonese and Mandarin, English became the most used language in Macau. The government is still unwilling to admit and legitimate it although government realized that English plays a critical role in Macau society. Some people supported the government because they argued that adopting English as an official language will further to weaken the development …show more content…

Macau, which is a small community, seeks to sustain growth need cooperation and reference other developed communities such as UK, HK, and Canada. And local enterprises want to sustain growth need to continuously improve own abilities. So it requires them to learn advanced technology from developed communities. Reference to UK, HK, and Canada, they recognized English as an official language. Therefore, both government and enterprises want to sustain growth first need to recognize the status of English. Macau English should be recognized because a small community to sustain growth need reference to infrastructure, language policies or linguistic regulations in a larger economic and Macau more rely on external standards, techniques and infrastructures so the immigration has a great impact on economy functions (Moody, 2008). DSEC showed that a lot of immigration in Macau come from Philippines, Vietnam and Indonesia communicate in English. They contribute to developing Macau economic. Foreign workers account for about 15% of the labor force in Macao, and they are mainly distributed in the manufacturing, construction and public works, hotels, and restaurants and personal services and other industries (Xiao, 2001). Therefore, they are an important part of Macau society. And English as an official language is helpful for immigrants to integrate into Macau society. Meanwhile, it helps to sustain Macau economic

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