"HOW ENGLISH BECAME THE INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE"
About 100 countries in the world use
English as a first or second language. Therefore
we learning English so we can understand the talk
of many people in the world. many of us who want
to know why English became the international language,
why not, Indonesia ,Javanese or Sundanese language?.
If in the view of the ancient Roman history since we realized the need for a common language that can be understood by a lot of people known as the Lingua franca in its history the lingua franca had changed dressing each time so did the English language has a history long enough to become the lingua franca.
If in the view of the ancient Roman history since we realized the need for a common language that can be understood by a lot of people known as the Lingua franca in its history the lingua franca had changed dressing each time so did the English language has a history long enough to become the lingua franca.
There are two factors that affect the English became the international
language the first are colonialism British, after the era of the industrial
revolution the British Empire became the country with the technology and the
most advanced military in the world these circumstances
make England became the country with the largest number
of colonies and made the language most widely in the
world, then the second factor is derived from the 20th
century, other English-speaking countries, namely the United
States emerged as the country with the greatest economic
power in the world, a very big economic power to
force other countries in the world use dollars and of
course communicate with English.
The phenomenon
of globalization also strengthen English as an
international language in the era of globalization many
companies and foreign media like broadcast television ,
magazines, newspapers and others, as a result we often hear and see so make us
accustomed to using English, United States of America also established offices
in other countries, as a result we are learning English in order to work in the
foreign companies that have large salaries, predicted English will still be the
international language of up to tens of twenty years into the future, by 2050
india predicted that the world's largest country becomes a beat tiongkong , india
using hindi and English as its official language, as a result of india can
affect the strength of English as an international language.
