English as a global language

A language achieves a genuinely global status when it develops a special role that is recognized in some powerful countries.

• True

• False

In the three “circles” of English, the inner circle refers to the ___________of English, where it is the primary language.

• non-native settings

• traditional bases

• multilingual language

• foreign language

When communities begin to trade with each other, they communicate by adopting a simplified language, known as _________.

• a linguistic mixed language

• a pidgin

• lingual franca

• common language

The first significant step in the progress of English toward its status as a global language did not take place till the end of the __________ century.

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

The nineteenth century saw a massive increase in American _______, as people fled the results of revolution, poverty, and famine in Europe.

• economy

• political power

• population

• immigration

In 1993, a series of government surveys among black parents in South Africa demonstrated an overwhelming choice of English as preferred language in ___________.

• education

• economy

• politics

• trading

Towards the end of the eighteenth century, the continuing process of British______________ established the English language in Australia and New Zealand.

• penal colony

• missionary work

• world exploration

• whalers and traders

The origin of South Asian English lies in _____________.

• France

• USA

• Britain

• Sri Lanka

By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the increase in _________had brought English to the whole West African coast.

• repartitioning of the region

• commerce and anti-slave-trade activities

• international communication

• unifying force

English is now the language most widely taught as a ______ in China, Spain, Germany, Egypt, Brazil, and Russia

• foreign language

• mother tongue

• second language