2.4.1 World Englishes

"For all the signs that English was becoming a world language, it was also diverging into multiple Englishes" (Cope & kalantzis, 2006).

Lingua Franca: a language or dialect systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect

• English gets mingled with the native/local language and becomes an international variation

• The History of the English Language (BBC Documentary)

• The Cambridge Online Survey of World English and Dialects

• The 100 most spoken languages worldwide

• David Crystal: World Englishes

Bill Cope & Mary Kalantzis (2006). From literacy to 'multileracies': Learning to mean in the new communication environment, English Studies in Africa, 49:1, 23-45, DOI: 10.1080/00138390608691342