The English language is taken as a leading role in groups of languages around the world. It has been dominating the languages around the world, as many languages are being died (disappeared) due to the influence or powering by english in all most areas, such as: science, medicine, agriculture, tourism, ICT, and many more.
Especially British and American English has been playing dominating role in the world. As I am a Nepali, I would like to explain here the roles and effects of English language in the context of Nepal and developing countries that have been using English as a second language or foreign language. English language is learnt or used differently in different countries in the world; as the mother tongue, as the second language, as the foreign language. In the context of Nepal English has been taught as a foreign language.
In Nepal, English subject is kept as a compulsory subject from Grade 1 to 12(school level), some faculties such as management, arts, and education have also kept English as compulsory at the bachelor’s level too. In the context of Nepal, the demand for English is emerging day by day. As like the mushroom bunches the English medium private schools are being established in the course of race to provide English language knowledge in every corner of Nepal. Due to this reason, the community schools of Nepal have been losing several students in the classroom. Some basic schools, i.e. running only up to Grade Five are being in a merged process or collapsed due to the lack of student numbers in them.
As Nepal is a developing country, has a great problem of unemployment. Learning English language is being as necessary as our food to retain the life; i.e if we have the knowledge of English we can get different sorts of opportunities in foreign countries to have a job for our life survival. Without having knowledge of English we may get difficulties to obtain the knowledge of ICT i.e the burning issue worldwide these days. As the world is being treated as a global village due to the advancement of ICT tools in each and every sector. We can have online jobs too in this period but before getting these opportunities we must have access to or knowledge of ICT, but the issue that comes at the center point is to use ICT tools effectively, conveniently, and spontaneously we must have knowledge of English.
Learn it, rob it, grab it, and get stuck up with it, if you want to hang up with this world.