English has rapidly become the international language for business, as a lingua franca. “That is to say, it is used as a medium of communication by people who do not speak the same first language,” explains Andy Kirkpatrick in his controversial book World Englishes: Implications for International Communication and English Language Teaching (2007).
In fact, some linguists claim that an estimated 700-800 million individuals speak English as a second, third, or fourth language. That is almost twice the estimated number of native English speakers, usually estimated at 400 million! Isn’t that amazing!
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hi erik thanx for visiting my blog and leaving such thoughtful comments. i read your posts too and i think that i need to refer this blog to some of my students.
also the 90% is for each individual and not for the entire population...like the 90% of problems i have or u have or just any individual could be having is psychosomatic in nature.
Good point and thank you for your contribution.
I really do appreciate your blog. You raised points that I've never seen discussed before.
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