?Required Format of Graduation Thesis
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Sample thesis:
Chapter 1: Globalization, language, culture and EFL teaching
1.1 English as an international language
The past decades have witnessed English becoming an international language. In terms of the increasing population of English speakers, Hu (2004: 26) has provided a
detailed description:
“English has for some time been learned world-wide, and is now spoken in every country of the globe. Some 380 million people speak it as their first language and perhaps two-thirds as many again as their second. A billion are lear ning it, about a third of the world?s population are in some sense exposed to it, and by 2050, it is predicted, half the world will be more or less proficient in it”.
In terms of the broader scale in which English is being used, Crystal (1997a) reported that:
“85 percent of international organizations make official use of English, at least
85 per cent of the world?s film market is in English, and about 90 per cent of
published articles are written in English.”
Graddol (2000:2) also stated that English has become the main language of newspapers, books, sport, pop music and advertising. It is now the working language of airports and air-traffic control, international business, academic conferences,
diplomatic affairs and international competitions.
The g lobalization of English is changing people?s perspective on various issues such as international communication, the ownership of the English language, different cultures that are now embraced in English language and so on. Sercu (2002) pointed out that “t he increased possibilities of travel to foreign countries and the increasingly multicultural character of many societies has made the prospect of face-to-face communication with interlocutors speaking the foreign language and displaying different cultural b ehaviors a more realistic prospect”. In this case, international communication consists of not only communication between native English speakers and non-native speakers but also communication between people from different non-English speaking countries using English as a lingua franca. This leads to the recent arguments on the ownership of English. As some linguists (e.g. Kachru, 1992a; Sridhar, 1992) believe, English can no longer be regarded as a language that is in the sole ownership of its native speakers or as being associated with a culture that embodies exclusively the values of speakers of British or North American standard English. Crystal (1997b) and Kachru (1992a) explain further that English now encompasses a vast variety of native and nativized cultures and expresses various social and cultural values of those local varieties of English when used in different localities. That is to say, English is now bridging different cultures in the world as the users of this language are from different cultures.
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