... This paper will investigate the opportunities and challenges for non-English speaking countries in the trend of using English as a global language. This essay will focus particularly on culture, education and linguistics. All of these are faced with both opportunities and threats for the non-English speaking countries. Culture is defined as "a particular state or stage of civilization, as ... will make a lot of other cultures disappeared, which is a very sad thing for Human beings, because culture is the most distinctive characteristic of a nationality. It is harmful for the multi of cul...

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... which include interpreting, applying and communicating mathematical information in commonly encountered situations (Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers, 1997). Kepert (nd) and Roberts (nd) explain the socio-cultural differences for Aboriginal children of a culture that has never used numbers in the same way as Europeans to quantify, specify relationships, locate themselves or use shapes for ... therefore culture free. He sees that it has been an imposition of western culture through trade, administration and education. He suggests three levels of responses to the assumption of...

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... that a few people understand what a lingua franca is, causing them not to see its significance. According to the United Nations Educational Scientific and cultural Organisations in 1953 defined a lingua franca as a language that is used habitually by people whose mother tongues are different in order to facilitate communication ... on a small area, only if it develops into a creole which can be standardized. The significance of English as a lingua franca on the education is very huge and acknowledged. It has been proven in a research conducted by Pamela (2010) that English is the most us...

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