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Báo cáo " English - A global language and its implications for students "

This article writes on the factors which make a language become ‘global language’ and discusses about how English achieves that status. The impacts of Engish as a global language on Vietnamese learners, science, business, technology, education are analysed. With the development of technology, media, science, education etc. English will help students broaden knowledge, change the way of thinking and brighten career prospect. | VNU Journal of Science Foreign Languages 24 2008 260-266 English - A global language and its implications for students Nguyen Thuy Nga Faculty of English Hanoi University of Education 136 Xuan Thuy Street Cau Giay Hanoi Vietnam Received 15 March 2008 Abstract. This article writes on the factors which make a language become global language and discusses about how English achieves that status. The impacts of Engish as a global language on Vietnamese learners science business technology education are analysed. With the development of technology media science education etc. English will help students broaden knowledge change the way of thinking and brighten career prospect. 1. Introduction Today English is becoming more and more popular all over the world. It is not only considered as the mother tongue of about 60 million speakers in many countries but also used widely in the world as an international language. English is the language of the United Nations international summit meetings science technology business tourism medicine etc. As the mean of communication English brings people on Earth together and helps them understand each other and exchange material cultural and spiritual values of their own countries. Needless to say English is now an indispensable part of our lives the term global language is now used for English with wide acceptance. In my writing firstly I will discuss about the term global language and how a Tel. 84-4-7565992 E-mail minhandnga@yahoo.com language becomes a global language. Some theories ideas and comments will be mentioned the main features will be discussed. Secondly why English dominates as a global language will be analyzed. Thirdly the implications for students are presented. In this part the advantages and difficulties are provided. The final part presents the summary of the study. 2. The term global language and how a language becomes a global language - The term global language From Crystal s 1 point of view a language can achieve