Assignment - EIC

SUBJECT ASSIGNMENT:
ENGLISH IN THE COMMUNITY

GENERAL INFORMATION:

This assignment must be done in groups and has to fulfil the following conditions:

- Length: between 6 to 8 pages (without including cover, index or appendices –if

there are any).
- Font type: Arial or Times New Roman.
- Font size: 11.
- Spacing: 1.5.
- Alignment: Justified.

The assignment must be written in this Word template and has to follow the instructions
on quotes and references detailed in the Study Guide.

Also, the assignment has to be submitted following the procedure specified in the
document: “Subject Evaluation”. Sending it to the tutor’s e-mail is not allowed.

It is strongly recommended to read the assessment criteria, which can be found in the
document “Subject Evaluation”.

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Assignment instructions:

Read Barbara Seidlhofer’s article (available here and also in recommended

readings before writing your insights. Bear in mind also Graddol (2006) – course
materials.

After the readings, discuss the following questions in essay form:

 Whose English should we teach? American, British, Australian - or an

International English which belongs to nobody and everybody?
 Should the pronunciation of English by non-native teachers attempt to
imitate native speakers or should teachers put their own accent and
personal identity into their pronunciation of English?
 Should the pronunciation of English by non-native speakers attempt to
imitate native speakers or should teachers allow their learners to put their
own accent and personal identity into their pronunciation of English?

Do not forget to:

a) Provide a title for the essay.

b) Link the three issues. Don’t write three separate mini-essays.
c) Quote Graddol and Seidlofer if you need to, but express your opinions on these
issues and clarify how you reach such opinions.

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Student’s full name:

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English is now what the world wants to speak

Have you ever wondered why everyone wants to learn English? For many years
this has been something very interesting to talk about. As we know English is used
around the word for different purposes for medicine, travel, business, teaching and so
on. In our case, English is used to teach to others how to speak it. With this in mind you
can think how English can be taught by non-native speakers? Since that is not our
language, and the ones who can easily teach English are the native speakers. Despite
this, there are more non-native speakers teaching English than native speakers. In
addition, people speak English with different varieties, different pronunciation, pitch,
tone, manners, in order to make emphasis on their origin place.

I do not know how to call this chart: PUT IT! THANK YOU MY FRIEND!

Country Population
American (USD) 330,255,917 (2020) Source: based on
Worldometer elaboration of the latest
United Nations data.
British 67,748,950 (2020) Source: based on
Worldometer elaboration of the latest
United Nations data.
Australian 25,385,021 (2020) Source: based on
Worldometer elaboration of the latest
United Nations data.
Native Speakers of English
Non-native Speakers of English

Evidently, English is increasing quickly. This brings us to the question Whose English
should we teach? American, British, Australian - or an International English which
belongs to nobody and everybody? Personally, we think English should be first taught ,
with a purpose, then non-native speakers will create their own accent, their own way to
speak it, using or not the rules, they will show their own emphasis on what they want to
perform when speaking English as second language. When English is learnt, everyone
got a special form to spread out what they already acquired from their teachings. For
instance: the pronunciation is the most notorious aspects when listening or having a
conversation with a non-native speaker or a native speaker. How do we know this? We
watch news, movies, tv programs, series where English pronunciation is totally
different. We have access to English in all the ways and platforms around the world, we

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listen to music in English from different artists, from famous people that are native
speakers, that are not native speakers.

Graddol ( : 82) points out a description about a model of English in order to teach it
as follows:

There is no single way of teaching English, no single way of learning it, no

single motive for doing so, no single syllabus or textbook, no single way of
assessing profificiency and, indeed, no single variety of English which provides
the target of learning.

This extract highlights there is not an unique model for the teaching of English but
Graddol ( ) in his book English Next mentioned the two models in which English is
being taught. He said that there is a great debate choosing the best methods to teach
English “but much of this debate is cast within only two models: the teaching of English
as a foreign language (EFL) and the teaching of English as a second language (ESL).

Bearing this in mind, if there is not a specific model to teach English therefore there is
not a specific variety of English (British, American, Australian, etc) to teach. English will
be acquired according to the region, place, country where the learners are involved.
The environment will fix up the pronunciation and the best way to get the path for a real
communication. However, EFL and ESL have been one of the most useful methods to
teach English arould the world.

According to Beare (2019) The British Council says that:

There are 750 million English as a foreign language speakers and

375 million English as second language learners. The difference
between the two groups is that EFL speakers generally are those using
English occasionally for business or pleasure, while ESL students use
English on a daily basis.

ESTE ES EL LINK DE ALLI DE ESE PARRAFO DE BEARE. LA INFORMACION

EMPIEZA DESDE LA PAGINA 82 DEL LIBRO DE LA CLASE SOBRE GRADDOL
https://www.thoughtco.com/how-many-people-learn-english-globally-
1210367

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REVISE ESTE LINK ALLI HAY ALGO DE EFL, PODEMOS DEFINIR PRIMERO
EFL AND THEN ESL.
http://prodibing.fkip.unsri.ac.id/userfiles/Teaching%20English
%20as%20a%20Foreign%20Language%20(Routledge%20Education
%20Books).pdf