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Question: Summarize this paragraph down below, entitled '' Language Policy and the ''English Only'' Debate ''

Assignment: Deep explanation to let you know my exact need so that I could get the perfect answer

I have an oral project to deal with.

I need two parts, what I mean by that is:

the First part: A very brief summary or a definition or whatever you want to call it about this paragraph. Because that is what I will show to my classmate in the Data Show

the Second part: I need a little bit more information about the summarized definition, and the most important thing, is examples. So that the teacher/students, won't get bored by just telling them the summarized part, but also examples to simplify things for them, and to better understand. So overall I want it precise and concise

One of the more controversial issues to rear its head in the global spread of EIL ( English as an international language ) is the extent to which the propagation of English as a medium of education, commerce, and government has impeded literacy in mother tongue languages, has thwarted social and economic progress for those who do not learn it, and has not generally been relevant to the needs of ordinary people in their day-to-day or future lives. linguistic imperialism, or "linguicism", as this issue has come to be named, calls attention to the potential consequences of English teaching worldwide when eurocentric ideologies are embedded in instruction, having the effect of legitimizing colonial or establishment power and resources, and of reconstituting cultural inequalities between English and all the languages.

A central issue in the linguistic imperialism debate is the devaluing, if not genocide, of native languages through the colonial spread of English. For more than a century, according to phillipson, there was little or no recognition of the imperialistic effect of the spread of English (and French) in colonial contexts. but in recent years, there have been some signs of Hope for the preservation of indigenous languages as seen, for example, in the council of Europe's 1988 European Charter for regional and minority languages, which assumes a multilingual context and support for minority languages. likewise, within the United nations, the universal declaration of linguistic rights has endorsed the right of all people to develop and promote their own languages and to offer children access to education in their own languages.

As teachers venture into the four corners of the earth and teach english, one of our primary tenets should be the highest respect for the languages and cultures of our students. one of the most worthy causes we can espouse is the preservation of diversity among human beings. At every turn in our curricula, we must beware of imposing a foreign value system on our learners for the sake of bringing a common language to all. We can indeed break down barriers of communication with English, but we are reminded that the two-edged sword of English as an international language carries with it the danger of the imperialistic destruction of a global ecology of languages and cultures.