" But all the evidence suggests that the English language snowball is rolling down a hill and is getting faster and faster. I don´t myself see that process stopping in the immediate future. David Graddol thinks even that momentum will die in the near future, but personally I think there is no sign of this" - David Crystal
" We have grow up with the idea of dominance meaning that a language actually pushes out other languages and takes over the world. That´s not actually what seems to be happening. Precisely because people are learning english as a second language, they are not actually giving up their first language. They are becoming bilingual or multilingual. So the spread of English around the world is actually creating a greatly increased bilingualism and multilingualism and multilingualism. In the future most people will speak more than one language and will switch between languages for routine task." - David Graddol
I totally agree with David Graddol because , in my opinion, English will not overcome/substitute all the other world´s languages, despite the fact that the number of people speaking English as a first language continues to rise . The students learn English because it´s considered to be an universal language and with the intention of becoming polyglot so they interact with their similar all over the world and not with the proposal of adopting that language as standard.
In the future, I hope that all the world languages can coexist!
I did this work because I thought it would be important go further on my writing skills and develop my critical capacity. It really helped me because now I have different perspectives about English worldwide and the importance of each language.
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