An experimental project of development and implementation of primary science experiences was taken up for schools run by non-government organization (NGO) in small habitations of the desert areas of Rajasthan state.

A three-month school-based experiment of introducing Globish was undertaken with grade three rural students (N=30; age: 9-10 years) who had acquired the literacy skills from the prescribed textbooks at grades one and two. The experimental course consisted of 500 Globish words out an identified list of 1500 such words. The procedure consisted of internalizing the Globish words through flash card drills; word puzzles; clapping rhymes and sentence forming substitution tables. Thereafter, the prescribed textbook was introduced.

There is a new language afoot, some believe, called "Globish." Did you know there are more non-native speakers of English around the world today than there are native speakers? In fact, the majority of exchanges in English happen among non-native speakers. And that is not likely to reverse, unless Americans, Canadians etc. start having 10 children or so per family. Although English is the new "lingua franca," it really has become a "lingua Globish."

All over the world Moroccans are talking with Mexicans, Koreans are e-mailing Syrians, and Germans are giving business proposals to Turks. All of them are trying to use English as a middle-ground language. A never-ending question for persons, and companies, who now use English, is: “How much English is enough?” The answer would probably be: “If it gets the job done, it is enough.” But the next, very business-like question, is much more difficult: “Does using more masterful English always get the job done better?”

The answer to the 2nd question is clearly "no."

Read more at http://www.bizeng.net/globish.htm

or on your mobile device at: www.bizeng.mobi/globish.htm  

A very positive article in a leading Croatian Publication called 'Liderpress':

Latin was once the shared language over a vast
area, but that was only in Europe and North Africa.
Never in the history of the mankind has a
language been as widely spoken as English today.
English is the language of intercultural business
communication and the key to prosperity. English
is no longer spoken just among native
speakers, but it is the language in which Croatians
speak to Germans, Germans to Italians etc. About
50 years ago, English had more native speakers
than any language, but today English is also challenged
by other fast-growing languages such as
Mandarin, Spanish and Arabic.

A surprisingly objective and fair article about Globish in a magazine called Agoravox, normally an ambassador for Esperanto, an organisation which honors globish with its strong hostility.  An immense privilege for an idea which was first published only 3 years ago, compared with 120 years of effort to promote Esperanto.

read more (in french) at:

http://www.agoravox.fr/article.php3?id_article=32303

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LE MONDE | 12.11.07 | 16h32


C'est l'estimation de l'expert britannique David Graddol, cité par le Financial Times, dans son nouveau livre English Next. Il y a cinquante ans, l'anglais était la première langue maternelle du monde, à l'exception du mandarin. Aujourd'hui, elle est supplantée par l'espagnol, l'hindi-ourdou et bientôt l'arabe. Malgré le recul relatif de l'anglais comme langue maternelle, une forme internationale d'anglais, surnommée "globish", s'est imposée comme lingua franca, notamment dans le monde des affaires. 53 % des enseignements dispensés aux étudiants internationaux dans le monde sont en langue anglaise, contre 11 % en français, 9 % en allemand, 5 % en chinois, 3 % en japonais et en Russe.

Accédez à l'intégralité de cet article sur Lemonde.fr
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3238,36-977331,0.html

Anglo-Files, a publication in Denmark, focusing primarily on the English speaking community, issued a 5 page article about Globish in its essay about globalization.

In its edition from 1st June 2007, Globish gets an unexpectedly positive coverage in a country where English comes across almost as naturally as their native Danish ( which has historically  many roots linked to English).