World Englishes

English language, just like all other ______, is not a pure language untouched by others

Its popularity and importance being the ______ ______ have made it long influenced by contacts with a wide range of languages in the world

Thus, people all over the world are using more and more varieties of English now popularly called ______ ______

English originally developed in England as one of the - languages

Still, through the historical efforts of the British Empire, it has become the ______ or ______ language of many former British colonies such as the United States, Canada, Australia, and India

Learning how to communicate in English itself, where how we ______ or articulate our words is all part of learning how to speak and duplicating the speech of people around us.

If we are born naturally introduced to bilingual families, at that point we may figure out how to communicate in English nearby ______ dialect.

At that point, as we go to school, we figure out how to read and to write a written equivalent of English speech that has standardized types of ______, punctuation and grammar.

Language specialists have classified and described the differences in the ways language is used in different ______.

Kirkpatrick (2007) distinguished and presented these world Englishes as English as a Native Language (ENL), English as a Second Language (ESL), and English as a Foreign Language (EFL). Braj Kachru (2003) represented the growth and spread of English in the ______.