THE USE OF ENGLISH
The uses of English One of the reasons that the demand for English classes and especially English for Special Purposes has been increasing in recent years is the fact that English has indisputably become the world’s lingua franca.When many people around the world meet and do not speak each other’s native language, they choose, or are forced, to speak English – or some form of it. This group has been estimated to be as large as two billion people. What then is the difference between the situation some years ago, when the focus of ELT was the Anglo-American standard, and the present situation, in which speakers of English as a second language are playing a greater role, comprising the majority of those using English? What is the relationship between teaching English in the classroom and the phenomenon of English as a global force? Resources in the classroom to accommodate such changes are limited but the purpose of language acquisition is always to enable learners