UNIVERSIDAD ABIERTA PARA ADULTO.

Subject

English Advance II
Topic

Final work
Professor

Pedro Antonio José Flete

Student

Luzhacttanny Delgado Abreu

Enrolment
16-4019
 INDEX

Table of contests

TITLE.......................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION......................................................................................................2
BODY....................................................................................................................3
Importance of Learning a Second Language ..........................................................3
English as a Second Language ............................................................................. 4

Teaching English as a Second Language ..............................................................4

English Learning Attitude ........................................................................................5
Economyaspect........................................................................................................6
Cultural aspect…………............................................................................................6
Globalization ........................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION .....................................................................................................10
PERSONAL
OPINION.........................................................................................................12
BIBLIOGRAPHY ..............................................................................................13

ANNEX (OPOCINAL) .............................................................................. 14

 INTRODUCTION

Today, more than ever, it is essential to learn the English language. Every day is
used more in almost all areas of knowledge and human development. It can
practically be said that it is the language of the real world. It is, in the era of
globalization, the great international language, a lingua franca that has impacted all
non-Anglo-Saxon countries, including Spain, and that affects more or less directly
the various fields and professions. His possession can not be treated as a luxury,
but it is an obvious necessity. Moreover, it is even said that someone who does not
master that language would be in a clear disadvantage: it would be as if he were
more or less illiterate. And there are plenty of reasons to say it. The pretension of
this document is, then, the way in which these motives are due and to make the
youth and the families aware of the great importance of acquiring that language.
BODY

Today’s economy is increasingly globalised, and this means that many of us are
interacting across cultures in a way we never did before. In such an economy, the
importance of learning a second language becomes self-evident. Learning a
second language helps you to communicate across cultures and to conduct
business in lands you may never have previously considered viable markets. It
also helps you to address customers in the language that they understand best
and in which they are most comfortable communicating. Additionally, the
importance of learning a second language is emphasized every day when we see
the diversity of earth’s cultures and the amazing array of people that make up our
global community.

That said, there is another reason supporting the importance of learning a second
language. Scientific studies have shown that learning a second language improves
brain function and stimulates creativity. When you know a new language, you start
to see connections you didn’t see before because every language approaches the
world in a slightly different way. As a result, you have the opportunity to understand
the world from the perspective of another culture and gain a greater appreciation of
human society in all its diversity. As a consequence, the importance of learning a
second language is again reinforced. You become not just equipped to
communicate across cultures but empowered to understand others’ points of view.

Importance of Learning a Second Language

September 13, 2013 by Bloomsbury International

Learning English as a second language, studentsToday’s economy is increasingly

globalised, and this means that many of us are interacting across cultures in a way
we never did before. In such an economy, the importance of learning a second
language becomes self-evident. Learning a second language helps you to
communicate across cultures and to conduct business in lands you may never
have previously considered viable markets. It also helps you to address customers
in the language that they understand best and in which they are most comfortable
communicating. Additionally, the importance of learning a second language is
emphasized every day when we see the diversity of earth’s cultures and the
amazing array of people that make up our global community.

That said, there is another reason supporting the importance of learning a second
language. Scientific studies have shown that learning a second language improves
brain function and stimulates creativity. When you know a new language, you start
to see connections you didn’t see before because every language approaches the
world in a slightly different way. As a result, you have the opportunity to understand
the world from the perspective of another culture and gain a greater appreciation of
human society in all its diversity. As a consequence, the importance of learning a
second language is again reinforced. You become not just equipped to
communicate across cultures but empowered to understand others’ points of view.

English as a Second Language

The world is an increasingly globalized place where individuals are communicating

among and between multiple cultures each day. Today, an individual has access to
a vast array of information from a variety of world cultures at the touch of a button.
For those of us in the English speaking world, we take access to this information
for granted.

Elsewhere, however, much of the world’s information is beyond their reach, locked
in English. That is one reason why learning English as a second language has
become so popular. In fact, English is now the world’s most widely spoken second
language, surpassing all others. In fact, more people now speak English as a
second language than as their first language.

As a result, there has never been a greater demand for classes to learn English as
asecond language. English is the gateway to a world of knowledge, commerce,
and culture, a lingua franca that gives a student access to the world in a way that
other languages do not. Just as Latin was the most important language for a
thousand years and French for five hundred, English is today the key to
participating in the global conversation. There are a variety of ways to learn English
as a second language, including computer programs, audio tapes, classes, and
immersion. Picking the right method for you requires some insight and self-
understanding.

Teaching English as a Second Language

Teaching English as a second language is an important task that produces a

number of powerful rewards.

First, there is the feeling of pride that as a teacher you have made a difference in
the life of a student. Second is the contribution you have made the international
community by minting a new speaker of the English language, one who can now
communicate across cultures and worldwide in the lingua franca of the modernage.
Teaching English as a second language is a noble calling, empowering students to

take their places in the global community and become active participants in the
global conversation.
Today’s English language learners are a diverse collection of immigrants,
businesspeople, students, and artists who share a dedication to the English
language and a love of learning. Teaching English as a second language to these
students is an honor and a privilege, one that we as educators share with all of
those who strive to give student the tools they need to take on new enterprises and
reach for their dreams. The gift of a second language is a window onto a new
world, bringing into focus a wealth of conversation, information, and understanding
that would otherwise be forever closed to the students who seek to learn a new
language. We therefore look forward every day to giving our students the tools to
succeed in all their dreams.

English Learning Attitude

The idea of learning English to the non-native English speaker or speaker from a
foreign country can create a great deal of both havoc and potential inspiration and
means for success in a person’s life. Specifically, it takes a lot of courage,
dedication and a positive attitude to create a positive personal space for English
learning. Attitude factors aside, the work that is involved in learning English is
great, and without at least a sense of what will happen at the end of the long road
of studying English, the learner could potentially grow frustrated and give up the
effort to learn English. In addition, the potential student of English learning may
well be greeted by dissidence among family and friends, where it is encouraged to
go along with the norm and study in one’s home country in one’s native language.
But, if one has the determination and personality that can be described as an
“English learning attitude” one should take the task of learning English very
seriously and ignore those who wish for another path for the person. Or better,
explain to loved ones the importance of learning English is to success in the global
economy, or in going to school in an English-speaking country.

These are all valid reasons for learning English and the “English speaking attitude”
– one that encompasses courage, dedication, intelligence and a desire to change
one’s life circumstance, will only grow as the decisions needed to reach the
ultimate goal, of
English language mastery, are accomplished.

Economy aspect

English is spoken by almost everybody in the world to some degree, it has the
tendency to transcend cultural aspects such as social, political, economic and
religious systems, thus functioning independently from any specific culture, in
terms of either race or group, to the extent that it can become a positive feature to
all or nobody. This implies that English can be regarded as essentially a value-free
means of learning to communicate.

Social institutions, such as education, exist as components of society with English

teaching extending beyond a means of providing the skills of communication, in
serving as a way of reflecting the ideological values of society.

Cultural aspect

This concept of the inseparable linkages between language, society and culture,
which ensure economic subsistence of society, is important in a consideration of
the social and cultural impact of EIL, because EIL concerns the relationship
between the international spread of English across national boundaries and the
many groups of people within their own societies, each with distinct traditional
languages and ethnic traditions, since the beginning of colonialism around 500
years ago, to the present age of globalization.

Phillipson (1992, 166) views the spread of EIL as repressive since it not only
substitutes and displaces other languages, but also imposes new ‘mental
structures’ on learners (please see the appendix). These ‘mental structures’ are
possibly the ideologies that

Westerners use to justify their own culture and impose these ideas on others. He
sees English learning and culture as inseparable, given that he sees
‘modernization’ and ‘nation building’ as being ‘a logical process of ELT’.

Phillipson also considers the implications of this, and criticizes the English
language teaching (ELT) profession for not having cross-cultural studies as part of
its core, and for not having any principled consideration for the educational
consequences that follow from its own awareness of this situation, thereby implying
that ELT is not only ignorant, but also guilty, of the ‘linguistic imperialism’ it
promotes.

The economic objective of colonization subjugated the colonized countries so that

they became the suppliers of primary and secondary products (minerals,
agriculture and people in the form of slaves) for the economic sustenance of the
colonizers, who needed to keep up the economic tempo created by the Industrial
Revolution. Phillipson makes sense in terms of the role EIL has played historically,
especially during colonization.

Culture would seem to be as important to communication as it is to personal

identity, and the two are related to economic subsistence as the prime
consideration, thus colonization aimed to destroy the personal identity of the
colonized. It had to subdue their resistance by marginalizing, among others, their
indigenous channels of communication and forcing them to learn English, the
language of the colonizer.

This would seem why, as Phillipson points out, English learning and culture are
inseparable, and the imposition of Western ways of thinking (‘modernization’ and
‘nation building’) are ‘a logical process of ELT’, in the same way that economic
inequality, sustained by EIL through ELT, was a logical process of colonization, in
order to keep the poor nations economically poor, mentally subdued, and hence
easily exploitable. Phillipson’s observation of the lack of cross-cultural studies at its
core also seems reasonably true, as Abbott (1992, 178) says:

There is, I suggest, a missing link between development studies and sociolinguistic
studies, especially that part of sociolinguistics that deals with language planning.

However, the role of ELT and EIL has also changed somewhat since that time.
They have become somewhat more sensitive in their interaction with other
cultures, while English has become adopted as a part of the culture of many former
non-English speaking countries, as will be discussed later.
Globalization

Globalization is the interchange of economic integration, personal contact,

technology, and political engagement. Held (1999, quoted in Hadley, 2002, 4)
defines globalizationas:

…the widening, deepening and speeding up of all worldwide interconnectedness in

all aspects of social life, from the cultural to the criminal, the financial to the
spiritual.

Despite the harmful effects of EIL in post-colonial imperialistic core-periphery

relations, globalization is also creating opportunities for some ex-colonies to benefit
from their historical experience with EIL, and use it for their own economic
development.

Globalization affords certain underdeveloped countries the opportunity to skip

certain traditional stages of economic growth, and catch up rapidly with developed
countries, especially those underdeveloped countries that now speak English as a
second language.

For example, while Mabogunje (1980, 13) found a close relationship between
poverty and ex-colonial status, which in turn suggests a relationship between
poverty and dependency on non-indigenous languages, Abbott (1992, 176) notes
that there are exceptions, such as Singapore.

However, for most of the ex-colonies, the unequal economic relationships, and the
legacy of English as a language for the elite will almost certainly remain so for the
foreseeable future.

There thus exists a potential for EIL, despite its oppressive historical role, to be
adapted to play a more constructive role in the future in that it is has become a
world language, no longer exclusively imposing a Western mindset, but helpful for
human development especially through the advances being made in
communications technology, and international communication in general, that have
enhanced access to markets, technology and ideas needed to reach higher and
equitable patterns of economic growth in the world. As Kaplan (1987, 144)
indicates:

…the relative achievement of those [modernization] objectives is significantly tied

to the availability of English because, for better or for worse, English is the
language of science and technology.

Over a decade later, this trend seems even more evident, as Mayer (2000, 1)
points out:
Globalization has drastically improved access of technological latecomers to
advanced technologies and, to the extent that technological upgrading is important
for development, it provides a unique opportunity for low-income countries to raise
percapita income.

With this in mind we now contemplate the views of theorists who view EIL mainly
as liberating, and the phenomenon which seems to hold the key to unlock the
potential for

EIL to play a more liberating role, which is the issue of the adoption and ownership
of English by formally non-English speaking countries.
 CONCLUSION

Knowledge of a foreign language is a basic need for professionals. NEED, no help,

no supplement. Today to be successful in professional life and make our lives
easier, it is important to start studying or improving our level of English Language.
Simply because English is the universal language spoken, read and written in
many parts of the world.

PERSONAL OPINION

Nowadays, English is one of the most important languages in the world because if
we know English we have more opportunities in the workplace.
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