Module 1

What is international language?

• a language that has a large number of native speakers

• As a language of wider communication, English is the international language par excellence

• language used by people of different nations to communicate with one another

Example of Inner Circle country

• USA,The UK, Australia

• India, Singapore, China

• The UK, USA, China

Outer Circle country uses English as?

• Mother tongue

• Secondary language

• Foreign language

What are some features of an international language? - Smith (1976)

•  Learners do not need to internalize the cultural norm

• the ownership of an international language becomes ‘de-nationalized’

• the educational goal of learning it is to enable learners to communicate their ideas and cultures to others.

EIL is used in which sense?

• global sense

• local sense

• both local and global sense

Answer explanation

EIL is used both in a global sense for international communication between countries and in a local sense as a language of wider communication within multilingual societies.

What is EIL in local sense?

• ‘re-nationalized’

• becomes embedded in the culture of the country in which it is used

• ‘de-nationalized’

Answer explanation

EIL is used both in a global sense for international communication between countries and in a local sense as a language of wider communication within multilingual societies.

What is EIL in global sense?

• to enable speakers to share with others in their ideas and culture

• to make speakers to withhold their ideas and culture

• to enable speakers to share with others in their culture only

What is EIL in local sense?

• ‘re-nationalized’

• becomes embedded in the culture of the country in which it is used

• ‘de-nationalized’

What is EIL in local sense?

• ‘re-nationalized’

• becomes embedded in the culture of the country in which it is used

• ‘de-nationalized’

Brutt-Griffler considers international language as?

• the product of the development of a world econocultural system

• tends to establish itself alongside local languages in multilingual contexts composed of bilingual speakers

• learned by various levels of the society

• spreads by many individuals acquiring the language.