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THE ROLE OF ENGLISH AS A GLOBAL LANGUAGE 
Students:
Mirqodirova Nigina, Sadullayeva Laylo
Yeoju Technical institute in Tashkent, 2-year student
Scientific Advisor: Nargiza Shaumarova,YTIT
Annotation: 
English became the global language during the years. It is the one language that is 
spoken and understood by the majority of the population in almost every region of the world. This 
article illustrates importance of learning English in business, education, and in our lives.
Key words:
World War II, Global language, business, English, tourism, British Empire, com-
munication, education, entertainment, Internet, International, research.
Over the years, languages have become important because of events that shape the balance of 
power among nations. In the twenty-first century, the entire world has 7,139 languages and about 40 
% of languages are endangered now. Among them, English is one of the most widely used languag-
es. In a fact, 350 million users and 59 states use English as a first official language across the globe, 
such as Alaska, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and 430 million people use it as a 
second, it is the most common second language in the world. Being able to speak English is not mind 
that you can only communicate with native English speakers. If you want to speak to someone from 
another country then the chances are that you will both be speaking the same language. Moreover, 
to maintain international relations in many spheres such as education, technology, business, travel, 
science, tourism, and so on, English serves the purpose of a common language and global language. 
It is the language mostly used not only by scientists, business organizations, and the internet but also 
in higher .education, tourism sector
s. In the present globalized world, English plays the main role and 
there is a need to discuss its role as a global language.
French and English are both languages of wider 
communication furthermore the changing the positions of the two languages kinds of music interna-
tional affairs during the past century illustrate the extent to which the status of a language depends on 
extra-linguistic factors. The ascendancy of English as measured by numbers of speakers in various 
activities does not depend on nostalgic attitudes toward the originally English-speaking people or to-
ward the language itself. Fishman makes the point that English is less loved but more used; French is 
more loved but less used. In addition, in a world where “Econo-technical superiority” is what counts, 
“the real ‘powerhouse is still English. It doesn’t have to worry about being loved because, loved or 
not, it works. It makes the world go round, and few indeed can afford to ‘knock it.’ But the English 
language of today reflects many centuries of development. The political and social events that have 
in the course of English history so profoundly affected the English people in their national life have 
generally had a recognizable effect on their language. And when English once more regained suprem-
acy as the language of all elements of the population, it was English greatly changed in both form and 
vocabulary from what it had been in 1066. Similarly, the Hundred Years’ War, the rise of an import-
ant middle class, the Renaissance, the development of England as a maritime power, the expansion of 
the British Empire, and the growth of commerce and industry, of science and literature, have, each in 
their way, contributed to the development of the language.
After World War II, English as an official language gradually conquered less and less territory 
among the former colonies of the British Empire, while its actual importance and number of speak-
ers increased rapidly.In 1935, English was the official language of one-fourth of the earth’s surface, 
even if only a small proportion of the population in some parts of the area knew English or some 
other well-known language for international communication. Bry B. Kachru notes that the unprec-
edented strength of the English language is an obvious historical fact: “Where more than 650 artifi
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cial languages have failed, English has succeeded; where many other natural languages, supporting 
their political and economic power, have failed, English has succeeded. One of the reasons for this 
dominance of the English language is its tendency to acquire new identities, its ability to assimilate, 

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its adaptability to `` decolonization ‘’ as a language, its manifestation in various variants, and, above 
all, its suitability as a language. flexible environment for literary and language education. other types 
of creativity in different languages and cultures ”.Kachru ignored the question about the cultures 
and other languages of the world are richer or poorer because of “the global power and hegemony 
of English,” and he called for a whole discussion of the question. Recent awareness of “endangered 
languages” and a new sensitivity to ecolinguistics have made clear that the success of English brings 
problems in its wake. The world is become poorer when a language dies on average every two weeks. 
For native speakers of English as well, the status of the English language can be a mixed blessing, 
especially if the great majority of English speakers remain monolingual. Referring to International 
English as “Global,” one observer writes: “The emergence of Global is not an unqualified bonus for 
the British… for while we have relatively easy access to Global, so too do well-educated mainland 
Europeans, who have other linguistic assets besides.”.Changes in the internet economy are happening 
so quickly that it is impossible to predict the future of the English language compared to other lan-
guages in this global system. It is becoming increasingly clear that online shoppers around the world 
are choosing to use the Internet in their own language and that English-language sites in the United 
States have lost market share to local sites in other countries. In September 2000, Bill Gates predicted 
that English will be the language of the Internet for the next ten years because accurate computerized 
translation will happen in more than ten years. However, four months later, China announced the 
world’s first Chinese-English Internet browser with a claimed 80 percent translation accuracy.
In the past half-century English language teaching business has become one of the major indus-
tries around the globe. An illustration of the scale of the development can be seen from the work of 
The British Council, which in 2002 had a network of offices in 109 countries promoting cultural, 
educational, and technical cooperation. In 1995–6, for example, over 400,000 candidates worldwide 
sat English language examinations administered by the Council, over half of these being examina-
tions in English as a foreign language. During that year, 120,000 students were learning. If someone 
wants to work ina global work workplace becomes necessary to be able to speak in English especially 
in the business sphere. Researches show that all over the world is conducted in English and many 
international companies expect employees to be fluent in English.Global companies such as Airbus, 
Daimler-Chrysler, Fast Retailing, Nokia, Samsung, SAP, Technicolor, and Microsoft in Beijing, have 
an ordered English as their official corporate language. When researchers investigate the reason why 
so many nations have modern years made English an official language or chosen it as theirprincipal 
foreign language in schools, one of the meaningful motives is educational – in the broadest sense. 
Black South African writer Harry Masha Bela puts it like this: “learning and using English will not 
only give us the much-needed unifying chord but will also land us into the exciting world of ideas; 
it will enable us to keep company with kings in the world of ideas and also make it possible for us to 
Share the experiences of our brothers in the world...”
Besides , learning Englishcan change your life. English is not useful only in the workplace or 
education but also entertainment sphere. Knowledge of English gives you access to a World of En-
tertainment such asthe world’s top films, books, and musicsongs which are published and originated 
in English.If you can speak English, you won’t need to rely on translations or subtitles anymore to 
entertain your favorite songs, films, and TV shows.
Reference:
1)D.Crystal(2003) English as a global language. Cambridge university press 
2) E.vanGelderen (2006) A history of the English language. John Benjamins Publishing company
3) elc-schools.com
4) en.mwikipedia.org
5) bartleby.com
6) projects.ncsu.edu

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