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English is without a doubt the actual universal language" said Carlos Carrion Torres of Brazil. While English is not an

official language in most countries, it is the language most often taught as a second language. English is most widely

used in communicating around the world. The information that the researchers gathered about communication and

English made them realize that the two terminologies must be always together. Good communication creates a good

ambience and relationshi between everyone in every organization esecially if it is inside a business while English is

now re!uired in every comany.

anguage is now considered a s#ill, in fact, big comanies both in $ri an#a and abroad loo# for. The imortance of

the English language in the wor#lace continues to be a to concern among emloyers in $ri an#a, a study reveals.

To every business entity, roductivity is of utmost imortance. % landslide ma&ority of '() of emloyers believed that

better English would imrove the roductivity of emloyees, as oosed to the () who don*t. +t was not surrising

then to find that ) of emloyers have turned down alicants due to a bad command of English while a further

-) would do so if necessary.

But how do emloyers screen through new hires on their command of the English language $creening via hone

interviews and resume slis come in at /) and (/) resectively. The most oular method by far however is to

screen a new hire*s English through a face0to0face interview 123)4.

Why learning English is important

%round the world, there is an estimated 5 Billion eole learning English. 6any factors oint to the reason why

learning English has seen e7onential growth in recent years, but it all boils down to the English language being the

"global language" of business, olitics, international relations, culture, and entertainment for so many countries

worldwide. %nd that is &ust an understatement as in fact, while English is not an official language in many countries

worldwide, it is the language most often taught as a foreign or second language.

The English language has spread to many parts of the world. The increase in the number of those

learning it and using it has been the most striking example of language expansion in this

century [1]. t has become the most important international language and is the most commonly

taught second or foreign language in the world. !ecent facts from the nternet show that there are

about "#$ million users of English of whom about %#$ million are nati&e speakers' about %$$

million are second language speakers' and about 1$$ million are foreign language speakers [(].

)ohn *dams in +achru [%] made a prediction about the English language that e&entually came

true. ,e said that English would be the most respectable language in the world and the most

uni&ersally read and spoken in the century. This prediction was made in the 1-th century and in

this (1st century' it has become a reality. ources from the /ritish 0ouncil suggest that English is

used in o&er "$ countries as an official or semiofficial language' and by the year ($$$ it was

estimated that o&er one billion people were learning English. hy is English gi&en so much

importance in so many countries2 *ccording to +achru [3]' English is often learned because of

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its literary heritage and the status accorded to the reader or speaker. 4urthermore' it opens doors

to technology' science' trade' and diplomacy.

English as an international language is the most widespread medium of worldwide

communication [5]. *ccording to mith [6]' it is the principal language of international politics'

commerce' technology' and aid as well as the language of science and technology. mith further

claims that as an international language' it is not bound to any one culture' and priority is gi&en

to communication. There is also no need for nonnati&e users of English to sound like the nati&e

speaker' but simply to use language' which is appropriate' acceptable and intelligible [6]. Thus'

English is learnt because of the many benefits which it is able to gi&e its learners.

n terms of its sociolinguistic status and domains of usage' English is still widespread and deeply

rooted in the country' mostly in urban en&ironments. /ilingualism and multilingualism in

English' 7alay' and further ethnic languages are common. English still holds a &ery strong

position in interethnic communication. The mesolect is the &ariety that is used for intranational

communication between 7alaysians of &arying ethnicity' as a medium of local communication .

English is widely a&ailable for daily exposure and easy ac8uisition' with respect to passi&e

language skills. t is readily accessible in the mass media' through radio' T9' and newspapers. t

is noted that %1.6 percent of all radio listeners listen to English radio stations. English is also

ac8uired naturally' e&en though passi&ely' by children in the kampungs through watching popular

T9 blockbusters. he claims that they tend to understand the English T9 programs well e&en if

they cannot speak in English. ome early' informal ac8uisition of English also operates through

the influence of elder siblings e&en in non:English speaking families. *nd finally' the fact that

basilectal English is also used by blue:collar workers' as shown by 7orais and others' testifies to

the range of informal domains into which 7alaysian English has diffused.

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