English Training in noida

The English language has a complex status in today’s world. For some people, it is acquired as a first language. For some, it may be learned at school, and be essential for academic and professional success. For others, it may represent a subject that they are required to study in school, but for which they have no immediate need. And English means different things to people in different parts of the world. For some, it may arouse positive feelings – as the language of pop culture, the media and social networking. For others, it may have associations with colonialism, elitism or social and economic inequality.

English today has a unique status, as a consequence of the role it plays around the world and its function as an ‘international’ or ‘world language’. It has been described as the world’s lingua franca. Although some 380 million people are said to speak it as a first language in countries like Australia, Canada, the United States and Great Britain, a further 600 million people use it, alongside other languages, as a ‘second language’ – in countries like Nigeria, India and the Philippines. And another one billion people are said to be studying it, at any one time, as a ‘foreign language’, in countries like China, South Korea, France, Germany, Russia and Spain.

English is learned for many different reasons. It may be an essential tool for education and business for some learners; it may be the language of travel and related activities of sightseeing for others; and it may be needed for social survival and employment for new immigrants in English-speaking countries. For some, it may be a popular language for the media, entertainment, the internet and other forms of electronic communication. For many, however, it may merely be a language that they are obliged to study, but which they may never really have any obvious need for.