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Ano: 2009
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: BIO-RIO
Orgão: Pref. Barra Mansa-RJ
Disciplina: Inglês (Língua Inglesa)
Banca: BIO-RIO
Orgão: Pref. Barra Mansa-RJ
Provas:
READ TEXT I AND ANSWER QUESTION.
A language in transition
As the world is in transition, so the English language is itself taking new forms. This, of course, has always been true: English has changed substantially in the 1500 years or so of its use, reflecting patterns of contact with other languages and the changing communication needs of people. But in many parts of the world, as English is taken into the fabric of social life, it acquires a momentum and vitality of its own, developing in ways which reflect local culture and languages, while diverging increasingly from the kind of English spoken in Britain or North America.
English is also used for more purposes than ever before. Everywhere it is at the leading edge of technological and scientific development, new thinking in economics and management, new literatures and entertainment genres. These give rise to new vocabularies, grammatical forms and ways of speaking and writing. Nowhere is the effect of this expansion of English into new domains seen more clearly than in communication on the Internet and the development of ‘net English’.
But the language is, in another way, at a critical moment in its global career: within a decade or so, the number of people who speak English as a second language will exceed the number of native speakers. The implications of this are likely to be far reaching: the centre of authority regarding the language will shift from native speakers as they become minority stakeholders in the global resource. Their literature and television may no longer provide the focal point to a global English language culture, their teachers no longer form the unchallenged authoritative models for learners.
(http://www.officiallanguages.gc.ca/docs/f/Future_of_English.pdf)
As regards the English language, the author states that it:
