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The love of all things English begins at a young age in non-English-speaking countries, promoted by pop culture, Hollywood movies, fast-food brands, sports events and TV shows.
Later, with English skills and international education qualifications from high school, the path is laid to prestigious international universities in the English-speaking world and employment opportunities at home and abroad.
But those opportunities aren't distributed equally across socioeconomic groups. Global education in English is largely reserved for middle-class students.
This is creating a divide between those inside the global English proficiency ecosystem and those relegated to parts of the education system where such opportunities don't exist.
[...] It's unfortunate so many schools view an English-speaking model as the gold standard and overlook their own local or regional wisdoms. We need to remember that encouraging young people to join a privileged English-speaking élite educated in foreign universities is only one of many possible educational options.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @07:59AM (1 child)
Eh, everyone here is required to learn either Latin or French as a third language in school, yet I don't think I've ever met anyone who found it easier to learn than English. Additionally, you'd run into considerable trouble trying to express modern concepts in a dead language unless you first create some bastardized, mock version of it (that would undoubtedly import much of the imprecision and ambiguity innate to all things modern).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 11 2020, @10:03AM
Not Latin, BTW. But who these days could tell?