Languages belong to users

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- 언어의 역할에 대한 간략한 Journal 입니다. Reference를 포함하고 있으며 대학원 졸업용 자료로 사용되었습니다.
- 원어민과 문법 교정을 끝낸 글 입니다.

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There is no argument that English is an international communication tool so there is no argument about the benefits of using English. Graddol (1999) stated that the number of people using English as their second language will grow to around 462 million during the next 50 years. The important factor to remember is that the users of English are not just inner circle country people anymore. The majority of the users will be non-native speakers from outer circle countries so an appropriate pedagogy for English as an International Language (EIL) is strongly needed.
McKay (2003) urged that English no longer belongs to any culture in particular but teaching contexts and materials are focused on acquisitioning of inner circle cultures. However, as language imperialism is spread to English teachers of EFL and ESL situations. It is really easy to find that “We use American text books” in advertisement of many private language

참고 자료

Graddol, D. (1999) The decline of the native speaker. In D. Graddole & U. Meinhof, English in a changing world [AILA Review 13]. United Kindom. 57-68

McKay, S. (2003) Toward an appropriate EIL pedagogy: re-examining common ELT assumptions, International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 13, No. 1