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The Importance of The English Language by means of Words of The World Bank. Visit: http://sites.google.com/site/enriqueruizdiaz/ Página 1 de 6 The Importance of The English Language by means of Words of The World Bank. Because universities are international institutions, with an openness to faculty and student flows and to borderless knowledge creation and dissemination, the language of science and scholarship is of central importance. For teaching and publishing, the earliest European universities used a common languageLatin. Even at that time, the universities saw themselves as international institutions, serving students from throughout Europe and often hiring professors from a variety of countries. Knowledge circulated through the medium of Latin. Two key tasks in those early years were translating books from Arabic and Greek into Latin and introducing this knowledge to Europe. Later, as a result of the Protestant Reformation, national languages began to dominate universities in their home countries, and the universities became national, rather than international, institutions. French was a central language of scholarship during the Age of Enlightenment and the Napoleonic Era. German became a key scientific language with the rise of the research university in the 19th century, and many of the new scientific journals were published in German. Following World War II, English slowly gained influence as the major language of scientific communication with the rise of the U.S. research university and the expansion of university systems in (a) English-speaking countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom; and (b) former British colonies including India and Pakistan in South Asia and Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe in Africa. In Asia, Hong Kong and Singapore emerged as academic powerhouses that used English in their universities.

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The Importance of The English Language

by means of Words of The World Bank.

Because universities are international institutions, with an openness to faculty and student

flows and to borderless knowledge creation and dissemination, the language of science and

scholarship is of central importance.

For teaching and publishing, the earliest European universities used a common language—

Latin. Even at that time, the universities saw themselves as international institutions, serving

students from throughout Europe and often hiring professors from a variety of countries.

Knowledge circulated through the medium of Latin. Two key tasks in those early years were

translating books from Arabic and Greek into Latin and introducing this knowledge to

Europe. Later, as a result of the Protestant Reformation, national languages began to

dominate universities in their home countries, and the universities became national, rather

than international, institutions.

French was a central language of scholarship during the Age of Enlightenment and the

Napoleonic Era. German became a key scientific language with the rise of the research

university in the 19th century, and many of the new scientific journals were published in

German. Following World War II, English slowly gained influence as the major language of

scientific communication with the rise of the U.S. research university and the expansion of

university systems in (a) English-speaking countries such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand,

and the United Kingdom; and (b) former British colonies including India and Pakistan in

South Asia and Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, and Zimbabwe in Africa. In Asia, Hong

Kong and Singapore emerged as academic powerhouses that used English in their

universities.

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By the beginning of the 21st century, English had emerged as the nearly universal medium of

scientific communication (Lillis and Curry 2010). Today, universities in non-English-speaking

countries are to varying degrees using English as a language of instruction in certain fields.

For example, in many Arabic-speaking countries, as well as in China and Korea, English is

used as the language of instruction in scientific areas and in professional fields such as

business administration. In Malaysia, which previously had emphasized the use of Bahasa

Malaysia as the language of instruction, English has returned as a major teaching language.

On the European continent, English is used for teaching in fields deemed most globally

relevant and mobile, such as business and engineering.

Most influential academic journals and scientific websites are published in English, and

universities in many parts of the world encourage or even demand that their professors

publish in English-medium journals as evidence of quality scholarship. Many arguments exist

concerning the advisability of this emphasis on the use of English for communication and

academic advancement. Yet, in fact, English is now the global language of science and

scholarship and is likely to remain dominant for the foreseeable future. Some analysts (Lillis

and Curry 2010) have pointed out that academics worldwide are forced to use the

methodologies and paradigms of the main English-medium journals, which reflect the values

of the editors and boards in the United Kingdom, the United States, and other metropolitan

countries. For authors whose first language is not English, acceptance of their work by these

influential publications is notably more difficult. The top-ranking journals are increasingly

selective, accepting only 5 to 10 percent of submissions, as universities worldwide demand

that their scholars and scientists publish in these journals.

The influence of English on research, teaching, and scholarship in the 21st century is one of

the realities of research universities worldwide, as illustrated by several case studies

presented in this book. In some ways, English is also the language of academic

neocolonialism in the sense that scholars everywhere are under pressure to conform to the

norms and values of the metropolitan academic systems that use English.

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From the document: «The Road to Academic Excellence - The Making of

World-Class Research Universities».

Human Development - THE WORLD BANK.

Authors (Editors): Philip G. Altbach and Jamil Salmi.

Original title of theme: «The Language of Science and Scholarship».

New Title by: M.C. Enrique Ruiz Díaz.

Maestro en Ciencias de la Computación.

Egresado del Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Ver.,

México.

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Know the Project: Books of English, from English 1 to 5.

«I formulated a project for the CBTIS 107 of Tuxtepec, Oax., México consisting in

giving to the Library of this Institution with five volumes of English language, of my

authorship. A book for each semester, from the first English book up to fifth English

book (according to the plan of studies in this regard of the CBTIS). At no cost to the

Institution, because this is a donation (in the staff, I solve my expenses of the project

with income of my employment as a professor that I would be in this CBTIS).

One of the major advantages of this project is to solve the need of the student of

spending in books of English language because the books will be at your complete

disposal into the student community in the Library of the institution.

Then, in an immediate subsequent phase of this project is that among the student

community of this CBTIS and all the CBTIS of the United Mexican States will have

these 5 volumes of English language by means of a page Google; read it, without

cost or restriction to the student.

Well, as a last note, I must say that these books will have the format of 'workbook'.

This, as an intelligent work with foundations and then their respective exercises to

resolve, into a concurrent process».

M.C. Enrique Ruiz Díaz. Con título y cédula profesional 5632071 en la Maestría en Ciencias de la

Computación. Egresado del Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Ver. (México). Más información de este proyecto: https://sites.google.com/site/mcenriqueruizdiaz/

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México, D.F. 2007. Durante mis estudios de Maestría.