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english as the Global LanguageEnglish is well on its way to becoming the dominant global language. It has both good and bad effects. In fields of business and science it is beneficial as it is a means of universal communication and setting global standards and equivalency. When having a common standard or measures people of different nations can easily do business and expand their network worldwide. People can do business with each other being on the other side of the world. It makes communication easier and faster therefore business can grow on a rapid rate. In the advance of telecommunication, all internet marketing and interaction is universally done in english. In the field of science scientists can also communicate their findings, discoveries and experiments worldwide by documenting their work in english therefore their work will be exposed and recognized by more people. Although in the case of literature, as opposed to other uses of language, language does not serve merely to communicate content (say, a story line) but is itself an essential source of enjoyment. When written in their native languages for certain people, it gives more emotions, better expressions in their own languages. The same with music, translations can only approximate the rhythms, sounds, images, allusions and evocations of the original, and in literature, those aspects are essential. Great authors write only in one language, few people have ever made contributions to world literature in more than one language. People can express themselves better in their own language. Another plus point for english is that it is more likely to be translated for economic reasons. Only works that have large sales are likely to be translated into other languages. The dominance of english in translation has gone up over the last 30 years as well, therefore if you want to reach the world audience, you should write in english. According to the above statistic, the need for people young and old to study english is great. There is more opportunity for english teaching and studying TEFL is beneficial in finding jobs and market for english teaching. It is also a well structured course which covers many angles of teaching, its thorough in grammar and both productive and responsive skills which are helpful for those who have no teaching experience and would like to make english teaching as their career. I would greatly recommend anyone who would choose this line of work to enroll in the course as from my experience, I was studying the course while starting the job at the same time and it has helped me greatly in teaching technique in being able to pass on the knowledge in way that students could comprehend. The class planning work is also helpful. It helped me to make sure that the class was balanced with all 3 stages so that classes were fun and lively and the students learnt something as well. The many ideas shared in the course were also very useful, especially in getting students to use their english and participating in games and activities. It is indeed worthwhile if you are planning to take up english teaching as one of your profession.
