The essay is 1000 words long, plus or minus 10% to include quoted material, and not including the Reference List. use some or all of the suggested texts on the Reading List (2 minimum), but are also expected to find at least another 2 academic texts (not on the Reading List) which they must use in their response. Therefore, the essay reference list should have at least 4 sources, and these must have been used in the essay explicitly. topic is: English as a Global Language affects people, communities and nations in different ways. What are some of these effects? Are they negative or positive and why is this important? You may wish to use these quotes to generate some ideas (below), but you do not have to: "Perhaps a global language will...make all other languages unnecessary. 'A person needs only one language to talk to someone else', it is sometimes argued, 'and once a world language is in place, other languages will simply die away'" (Crystal, 2003, p.15. bold in the original). "An indication of English's international status is the fact that most, if not all, nations around the world have official government policies dealing with the status of English as a domestic issue...English is either perceived as a threat, for example, to a nation's language(s) or cultural identity, or it is considered to be an asset, economically (for instance" (Hale & Basides, 2013, p.7). Reading List: Crystal, D. (2003). English as a Global Language (2nd Edn.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Evans, N. (2009). Dying Words: Endangered languages and what they have to tell us. Maldon & Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Graddol, D. (2006). The Future of English. Available from: http://www.britishcouncil.org/learning-elt-future.pdf Hale, A. & Basides, H. (2013). The Keys to Academic English. South Yarra (Melb.): Macmillan. Kirkpatrick, A. (2007). World Englishes: Implications for international communication and English language teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Langton, M. (2012). "The Quiet Revolution: Indigenous People and the Resources Boom". abc.net.au. 2012 Boyer Lectures: Sunday 18 November 2012 - Sunday 2 December 2012. Available from: http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/boyerlectures/2012-boyer lectures/4305696 Mair, C. (2003) (Ed.). The politics of English as a world language: New horizons in postcolonial cultural studies. New York: Rodopi. Northrup, D. (2013). How English Became the Global Language. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.