Chapter 2: Lingua Franca of The World

Before class, I read articles about World Englishes, The end of CLT and Teaching World Englishes. I though that searching for the article is harder than reading it because I spent more time to search the article. At the beginning of the class, teacher assigned us to discuss in a group of 6-7 students in the topic of Global English, English as an International Language, English as a Second Language, English as a Foreign Language, Lingua Franca and Role of English in Thailand. While my friends and I were discussing by using a various of articles from different sources, I realized that the concept of World English, World Englishes and Global Englishs are quite different. World English refers to the English Language as a lingual franca that is  used in business, trade, diplomacy and other spheres of global activity, while World Englishes refers to the different varieties of English in different regions of the world. The team Global Englishes has been used by scholars in  the field to emphasis the more recent spread of English due to globalization.After discussion, teacher assigned us to present the result of the discussion by sending the head of the group or secretary of the group to be the representative. While group 1 was presenting, teacher had an urgent meeting of the university and gave us a sheet of Teaching English as an International Language and assigned us to read it.