English as Lingua Fra

JOURNAL 9

WEEK 10

ENGLISH AS LINGUA FRANCA

English as a lingua franca can be defined as a contact language used between speakers who do not share same mother tongues and cultures. It is a global phenomenon which a wider much range of people using English now as an additional language than native speakers. Indeed, it was estimated that nearly 80% of people worldwide communicate with different mother tongues of people. And the most exciting news is they use English instead of other language which can be found in the world. 

Generally, people choose English to be the lingua franca because of some reasons. Firstly, English is a very simple language. It can be learnt easily and everybody can learn it quickly. Besides, English language is spoken by the popular and well-known countries such as America, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada. These few countries have major influence towards the world's economic, that is why it helping in the making of English language as lingua franca either.

However, making English language as lingua franca also brings in few negative impacts. As we know, lingua franca is very important as it allows us to communicate world-widely with people from different countries. Thus, people put English language at the first priority compare to their own mother tongues. This action will then caused them to forget about their own mother tongue as they are too busy focusing to the English language. In addition, we know that language is the main transport for cultures and tradition to be inherited. Therefore, not only their language will extinct, but also their cultures and traditions.

In conclusion, making English as lingua franca has its own pros and cons.