Who Owns Global English Case Study

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Who owns global English? English is with no doubt, the world’s language. It is considered being the most second language to be learned after the native language of a spoken person. English is considered being the most spoken language in countries such as Australia, Canada and United States of America. So many countries now are adapting the English language and most of the international schools around the world. In “Who owns global English?” by Dennis Baron, the essay talks about who actually owns the global English in the world. The most accurate response to this question, according to the article, is that the English language no longer belongs to a certain country or specific nation, the English language belongs to who speaks English anywhere. …show more content…

The author’s style of this essay was as formal as it can be, as he stated the importance of the English language and how the use of impropriate English is considered to be more of an insult for the native English speakers in general. The author was trying to persuade his audience by stating that English belongs to the world itself and its speaker and it is certainly doesn’t belong to anyone in particular. The author mentioned “… now that it’s global, is no longer the exclusive property of English-speaking nations”. (Page: 438, paragraph11). The author has criticized the use of the English at the Campaign in Spain that they used the sentences of the English and made it “Bad English”. The author revels his attitude towards the subject because he is an English professor and that he is so wide in this educational system to rather judge what a good English looks like or how bad English looks like. The author encourages his audience to respond to his article, as the author mentioned how English language should be used and written, and that the English language is global and for anyone who can state that the English belongs to a certain country or a nation, shall be a false

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