The world uses English as a lingua franca because it makes sense for millions of people (“The Downside of English’s Dominance,” Review, Nov. 27). My grandfather in India mandated the use of English in ...

A study highlights the need for a new approach to the teaching of English pronunciation given that English is now a lingua franca, with more non-native speakers in the world than native speakers. A ...

Carey, Ray (2014) Toward a methodology of chunking: applications and extensions of Linear Unit Grammar. Paper presented at ICAME 35 (Intl. Computer Archive of Modern & Medieval English), University of ...

Is there a certain triumphalism about English these days? The language is viewed as so pervasive, so essential, in our ever-more-connected world, that it can only continue to dominate. Not so fast, ...

The Last Lingua Franca: English Until the Return of Babel. By Nicholas Ostler. Walker & Company; 368 pages; $28. Allen Lane; £20. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk ENGLISH is the most successful ...

This article first appeared in The Conversation. English is widely acknowledged as the world's most successful language. It has developed over the 20th century into a global lingua franca, the most ...

To capture the changes in English as they are taking place and to understand the processes involved, we need to document uses of English as it undergoes these transformations. Project SELF sets out to ...

2006-12-10 04:00:00 PDT Brussels , Belgium-- At the European Union's daily news conference recently, the names of the 20 languages into which questions and answers would be translated shone in red ...

The exam format to enter Royal changed with an exception to the rule in 1959 to favour the powerful. SWRD Bandaranaike, the ...