Monday, 27 April 2009

English Worldwide

This report by the British Council http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-research-english-next.pdf has interesting stuff on the market for English language material worldwide, as well as useful material on the globalisation of universities - see pages 90-92.

For students in Continental Europe, there's clear evidence that English is on the ascent (unlike English elsewhere, which is facing challenges from Mandarin, Hindi, Spanish and Arabic).

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Hi - I'm Mike - I live in Belgium and am an Open University Student also active in the Open University Students Association. I am always on the verge of saying something important (or so I tell myself...)