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Direct linkKaplan, Robert B. – Current Issues in Language Planning, 2015
Language policy is a mechanism determining the uses of language generally; here it examines the role of the English language in the emerging USA. Inspired by Spanish riches deriving from the "New World" during the sixteenth century, the first English people to settle permanently in North America hoped for similar riches. In North…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Multilingualism, North American English, Language Planning
Download full textKaplan, Robert B. – 1998
This paper contends that the World War II settlements, the birth of the United Nations, the invention of the computer, and the geometric growth of science and technology, all occurring accidentally at the same time, created the conditions which made English an important language. The paper notes the financial incentives in servicing international…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, English, Foreign Countries, Foreign Students
