The English language is an Indo-European language in the West Germanic language group.

Modern English is widely considered to be the lingua franca of the world and is the standard
language in a wide variety of fields, including computer coding, international business, and
higher education.
English is the language of our international communication in all areas, such as politics,
science, media or art and it is often the language of entertainment as well as socialising. Having
a good command of English helps us to have more opportunities in life, first of all, our career.

According to Reference.com, there are 983 million people in the world who speak English, or
13% of the world's population, according to Ethnologue.
It is estimated 372 million speak English as their first language, while 611 million speak English
as a second language.

But here in the Philippines, according to Manila Times, (2019), Hopkins International Partners
was the official representative of the Philippines to the Test of English for International
Communication (TOEIC), an international standardized test of English language proficiency for
non-native speakers that is designed to measure the everyday English skills of people working
in an international environment.

Theu conducted a research where they measure the fluency of a Filipino. The study showed
that Filipino graduates’ English skills were lower than the target for cab drivers in Dubai. Cab
drivers in Dubai, the largest city in the United Arab Emirates, are expected to have a TOEIC
proficiency score of 650, compared to the 631.4 proficiency score of a Filipino college graduate.
Filipinos have been known to be highly educated. The country’s literacy rate is high at 94
percent, and 70 percent of the population are fluent in English, making the Philippines one of
the largest English-speaking countries in the world.
But not all the students may apply the fast learning of speaking fluent english via schools.

According to Rollanda E O'Connor, (2018), typical readers in this sample showed patterns of
oral reading rate and comprehension similar to students in other studies, patterns for students
with reading difficulties differed. For dysfluent readers, improving reading rate improved
comprehension only in the bands between 35 and 75 words correct per minute in second grade
and between 40 and 90 words correct in fourth grade. Reading at faster rates revealed no clear
advantage for reading comprehension