English as a

Global language
 Globalization of English

Geographical- Socio-cultural
historical reasons reasons
Northern Europe England
 North America
A fresh dimension to the history of the language

Walter Raleigh expedition Chesapeake Bay First Puritans Migration

1584 first colonies
English in Canada
John Cabot reaching Newfoundland
in 1497
Australia was first visited by
James Cook in 1770
 Captain Cook
charted the islands in
1769–70, and European
whalers and traders began
to settle there in the 1790s,
expanding the
developments already
taking place in Australia.
The Cape, South Africa
 The first regular British contact with the
subcontinent came in 1600 with group of London
merchants who were granted a trading monopoly in
the area by Queen Elizabeth I.
 It is approximately 3 and 5 percent
of the people made regular use of
English, which would have yielded a
total of some 30–50 million around the
year 1999.
 The increase in commerce and
anti-slave-trade activities had brought
English to the whole West African
coast.

British varieties developed

especially in five countries, each of
which now gives English official
status.
 A world view
 two factors of english world status
 the spread of English around the world as three
concentric circles, representing different ways in
which the language has been acquired and is
currently used.